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State of North Carolina

Flag of North Carolina Seal of North Carolina Nickname(s): Tar Heel State; Old North State
Official language(s)	English
Capital Largest city	Raleigh Charlotte
Area	Ranked 28th
- Total	53,865 sq. mi.  (139,509 km²)
- Width	500 miles (805 km)
- Length	150 miles (240 km)
- % water	9.5
- Latitude	34°N to 36°21'N
- Longitude	75°30'W to 84°15'W
Population	Ranked 11th
- Total (2000)	8,049,313
- Density	165.24/sq. mi.  63.80/km² (17th)
Elevation
- Highest point	Mt. Mitchell 6,684 feet  (2,038 m)
- Mean	705 feet  (215 m)
- Lowest point	sea level�??0 feet  (0 m)
Admission to Union	November 21, 1789 (12th)
Governor	Mike Easley (D)
U.S. Senators	Elizabeth Dole (R) Richard Burr (R)
Time zone(s)	Eastern: UTC-5/-4
Abbreviations	NC US-NC
Web site	www.nc.gov

North Carolina is a state in the Southern United States of America. Home to the first English colony in the Americas, it was one of the original 13 states.

Contents 1 Geography 2 History 2.1 Native Americans and Lost Colony 2.2 Colonial period and Revolutionary War 2.3 Civil War 3 Demographics 3.1 African-Americans 3.2 European-Americans 3.3 Native Americans 3.4 Latino and Asian-Americans 3.5 Religion 4 Economy 5 Transportation 5.1 Airports 5.2 Major highways 6 Law and government 6.1 State constitution 7 Important cities and towns 8 Education 8.1 Colleges and universities 9 Professional sports teams 10 Miscellaneous topics 10.1 Interesting city names 11 See also 12 Notes 13 References 13.1 Surveys 13.2 Scholarly studies 13.2.1 Pre 1900 13.2.2 Since 1900 13.3 Primary sources 14 External links

Geography

North Carolina is bordered by South Carolina on the south; Georgia on the southwest; Tennessee on the west; Virginia on the north; and the Atlantic Ocean on the east. The United States Census Bureau classifies North Carolina as a Southern state in the subcategory of being one of the South Atlantic States.

North Carolina consists of three geographic sections: the coastal plain, which occupies the eastern 45% of the state; the Piedmont region, which contains the middle 35%; and the Appalachian Mountains and foothills, which take up the remaining 20% of the state in the west.

The coastal plain begins in the east as a chain of narrow, sandy barrier islands known as the "Outer Banks". The Outer Banks encompass two sounds �?? Albemarle Sound in the north and Pamlico Sound in the south; they are the two largest landlocked sounds in the United States. Inland the coastal plain is relatively flat, with rich soils which grow tobacco, soybeans, and cotton. The major rivers of this section, such as the Tar River and Cape Fear River, tend to be slow-moving and wide.

Further inland is the "fall line," a series of hills which mark the end of the coastal plain and the beginning of the Piedmont. The Piedmont region of central North Carolina is North Carolina's most urbanized and densely-populated region. It consists of gently rolling countryside frequently broken by hills or low isolated mountain ridges. Many small, deeply eroded mountain ranges and peaks are located in the Piedmont, including the Saura Mountains, Pilot Mountain, the Uwharrie Mountains, Crowders and Kings Mountains, the Brushy Mountains, and the South Mountains. The Piedmont ranges from about 300-400 feet (90-120 m) elevation in the east to over 1,000 feet (300 m) in the west. The major rivers of the Piedmont, such as the Yadkin and Catawba, tend to be fast-flowing, shallow, and narrow.

The western section of the state is part of the Appalachian Mountain range. Among the subranges of the Appalachians located in the state are the Great Smoky Mountains, Blue Ridge Mountains, Balsams, Pisgahs, and the Black Mountains. The Black Mountains are the highest mountains in the Eastern United States, and culminate in Mount Mitchell at 6,684 feet (2,037 m). It is the highest point east of the Mississippi River. Due to the higher altitude in the mountains, the climate often differs starkly from the rest of the state. Winters in western NC typically feature significant snowfall and subfreezing temperatures more akin to a northern state than a southern one.

Areas under the management of the National Park Service include:

• Appalachian National Scenic Trail
• Blue Ridge Parkway
• Cape Hatteras National Seashore
• Cape Lookout National Seashore
• Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site at Flat Rock
• Fort Raleigh National Historic Site at Manteo
• Great Smoky Mountains National Park
• Guilford Courthouse National Military Park in Greensboro
• Moores Creek National Battlefield near Currie
• Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail
• Trail of Tears National Historic Trail
• Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina

History

Native Americans and Lost Colony

North Carolina was originally inhabited by many different native peoples, including the Cherokee, Creek, Tuscarora, Lumbee and Catawba. North Carolina was the first American territory the English attempted to colonize. Sir Walter Raleigh, for whom the state capital is named, chartered two colonies on the North Carolina (then Virginia) coast in the late 1580s, both ending in failure. The demise of one, the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke Island, remains one of the great mysteries of American history. Virginia Dare, the first English child to be born in North America, was born in North Carolina. Dare County is named for her.

Colonial period and Revolutionary War

The first permanent European settlers of North Carolina were English colonists migrating south from Virginia, following a rapid growth of the colony and the subsequent shortage of available farmland. Nathaniel Batts was documented as one of the first of these Virginian immigrants. He settled south of the Chowan River and east of the Great Dismal Swamp in 1655.^[1] By 1663, this northeastern area of the Province of Carolina was experiencing full-scale English settlement.^[2]

During the same period, the English monarch Charles II gave the province to the Lords Proprietors, which was a group of noblemen who had helped restore Charles to the throne in 1660. In 1712, North Carolina became a separate colony. With the exception of the Earl Granville's holdings, it became a royal colony seventeen years later. According to legend, on May 20, 1775, Mecklenburg County became the first North Carolina county to declare its independence from Great Britain. On April 12, 1776, the colony became the first to instruct its delegates to the Continental Congress to vote for independence from the British crown. The dates of both of these independence-related events are memorialized on the state flag and state seal.

On November 21, 1789, North Carolina ratified the Constitution to become the twelfth state in the Union. It is one of the main reasons the United States Bill of Rights exists. The state refused to ratify the constitution until some sort of declaration of the peoples rights was added. The North Carolina Government received a letter from Continental Army General George Washington stating that this was a wonderful idea. Thus, the Bill of Rights was added to the United States Constitution. North Carolina worked to establish its state and local governments. In 1840, it completed the state capitol building in Raleigh, still standing today. In mid-century the state's rural and commercial areas were connected by construction of a 129 mile (208 km) wooden plank road, known as a "farmer's railroad," from Fayetteville in the east to Bethania (northwest of Winston-Salem).

Civil War

In 1860, North Carolina was a slave state. It refused to join the Confederacy until President Abraham Lincoln called on it for troops to invade South Carolina. The state was the site of few battles, but in the Civil War it provided 281,205 troops to the Confederacy�??more than any other Confederate state. Approximately 40,000 of those troops never returned home, dead of battlefield wounds, disease and privation. Governor Zebulon Baird Vance, elected in 1862, tried to maintain state autonomy against president Jefferson Davis in Richmond. The state's troops served in virtually all the major battles of the Army of Northern Virginia. The largest battle in the state was at Bentonville, which was a futile attempt by Confederate General Joseph Johnston to slow Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's advance into the Carolinas in the spring of 1865. In March of 1865, Sherman was able to capture his chief North Carolina objective when he took Goldsboro; at the time it was the main railroad junction in North Carolina. Johnston surrendered one of the largest Confederate armies at Bennett Place, a farm house in what is now Durham, in late April 1865, weeks after General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox. A small, integrated guerrilla force of white and Cherokee Confederates under William Holland Thomas continued fighting in the mountains until May 10. This unit, called the "Thomas Legion," was never actually defeated by Union troops; it had the odd distinction of capturing a city (Waynesville) then voluntarily ceasing from hostilities.

Demographics

Historical populations
Census year	Population
1790	393,751
1800	478,103
1810	556,526
1820	638,829
1830	737,987
1840	753,419
1850	869,039
1860	992,622
1870	1,071,361
1880	1,399,750
1890	1,617,949
1900	1,893,810
1910	2,206,287
1920	2,559,123
1930	3,170,276
1940	3,571,623
1950	4,061,929
1960	4,556,155
1970	5,082,059
1980	5,881,766
1990	6,628,637
2000	8,049,313
2005	8,683,242 Est

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2005, North Carolina has an estimated population of 8,683,242, which is an increase of 142,774, or 1.7%, from the prior year and an increase of 636,751, or 7.9%, since the year 2000. This exceeds the rate of growth for the United States as a whole. The growth comprises a natural increase since the last census of 248,097 people (that is 627,309 births minus 379,212 deaths) and an increase due to net migration of 390,672 people into the state. Immigration from outside the United States resulted in a net increase of 158,224 people, and migration within the country produced a net increase of 232,448 people.

North Carolina has 3 Metropolitan Combined Statistical Areas with a population over 1 million:

• Charlotte-Gastonia-Salisbury, NC-SC - population 2,067,810
• Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point - population of 1,473,679
• Raleigh-Durham-Cary - population of 1,467,434

The racial makeup of the state is:

• 70.2% White Non-Hispanic
• 21.9% Black
• 4.1% Hispanic of any race
• 1.4% Asian
• 1.2% Native American
• 1.3% Mixed race

The five largest ancestry groups in North Carolina are: African American (21.6%), Scots-Irish (13.9%), English (9.5%), German (9.5%), Irish (7.4%). Significantly, North Carolina has one of the largest Native American populations in the United States.

African-Americans

African-Americans are concentrated in the state's eastern Coastal Plain and in parts of the Piedmont Plateau where plantation agriculture was most dominant. Until the mid 1860s, North Carolina had more small farms and fewer plantations than adjacent South Carolina and Virginia. These "yeoman" farmers were non-slave holding, private land owners of tracts of approximately 500 acres (2 km²).

European-Americans

North Carolinians of Scots-Irish and British ancestry are concentrated in the western mountains, coastal areas, and rural areas of the central Piedmont. In the Winston-Salem area, there is a substantial population of Germanic ancestry from the migration of Moravians during the 18th century.

Native Americans

Estimated population figures for American Indian and Alaska Natives in North Carolina as of 2004 is 110,198, or 1.3% of the total North Carolina population. Only five states (California, Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas) have a larger Native American population than North Carolina. The total American Indian and Alaska Native population in the United States is 2,824,751, or 0.95% of total U.S. population.

To date, North Carolina recognizes eight Native American tribal nations within its state borders:

• The Lumbee, are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River, the ninth largest tribal nation, and the largest non-reservation, non-federally, albeit state-recognized tribe in the U.S. The Lumbee comprise roughly one-half the state of North Carolina's indigenous population of 84,000 with a population of 52,614, and live in Robeson, Hoke, Scotland, and Cumberland counties. The Lumbee received state recognition in 1885, and have maintained a relationship with the federal government since 1888. Though they lack formal federal recognition, they were recognized as Native Americans by an Act of Congress, known as the Lumbee Act, in 1956.
• The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians were federally recognized in 1868 and received state recognition in 1889. The Eastern Cherokee live in western Swain County, as well as Graham and Jackson counties, and have roughly 13,400 enrolled members, most of whom live on a reservation properly called the Qualla Boundary. The Reservation is slightly more than 56,000 acres, and is held in trust by the federal government specifically for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.
• The Haliwa-Saponi Tribe of Native Americans received state recognition in 1965. The tribe is comprised of a little more than 3,800 enrolled members who reside in northeastern North Carolina's Halifax and Warren counties.
• The almost 2,000 members of the Waccamaw Siouan Indian Tribe are located in the southeastern North Carolina counties of Bladen and Columbus and received state recognition in 1971.
• The Coharie Tribe of Indians are located in Sampson and Harnett counties, and have a population of 1,781 enrolled members. The Coharie received state recognition in 1911. North Carolina rescinded recognition in 1913 but reinstated it in 1971.
• The Sappony Indians of Person received state recognition in 1911 and have 850 enrolled members.
• The Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation have a population of 800 members who reside in Orange and Alamance counties and received state recognition in 2002.
• The Meherrin are an Iroquoian-descent Native American tribe located primarily in rural northeastern Hertford, Bertie, and Gates counties, with a population of 557 enrolled members.

Latino and Asian-Americans

The state has one of the fastest growing Latino and Asian populations in the country; the populations have nearly quintupled and tripled respectively between 1990 and 2002.

6.7% of North Carolina's population were reported as under 5, 24.4% under 18, and 12.0% were 65 or older. Females made up approximately 51% of the population.

Religion

North Carolina, like other Southern states, has traditionally been overwhelmingly Protestant, with the largest Protestant denomination being the Baptists. However, the rapid influx of Northerners and immigrants from Latin America is steadily increasing the number of Roman Catholics in the state, and the historically Protestant (especially Baptist) dominance is beginning to erode. The current religious affiliations of the people of North Carolina are shown below:

• Christian �?? 88%
  • Protestant �?? 77%
    • Baptist �?? 40%
    • Methodist �?? 10%
    • Presbyterian �?? 3%
    • Other Protestant or general Protestant �?? 24%
  • Roman Catholic �?? 10%
  • Other Christian �?? 1% (such as Eastern Orthodox)
• Non-Religious �?? 11% (atheists, agnostics, and others)
• Other Religions �?? 1% (Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism)

Economy

According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the state's 2003 total gross state product was $314 billion. Its 2003 per capita personal income was $28,071, 38^th in the nation. North Carolina's agricultural outputs include poultry and eggs, tobacco, hogs, milk, nursery stock, cattle, and soybeans. However, North Carolina is the state most affected by outsourcing; one in five North Carolina manufacturing jobs has been lost to overseas competition.^[3]

Over the past century, North Carolina has grown to become a national leader in agriculture, financial services, and industry. The state's industrial output�??mainly textiles, chemicals, electrical equipment, paper and paper products�??ranked eighth in the nation in the early 1990s. Tobacco, one of North Carolina's earliest sources of revenue, remains vital to the local economy. Recently, technology, research, and banking have been on the rise, especially with the creation of the Research Triangle Park between Raleigh and Durham in the 1950's, along with Charlotte's newfound status as the second largest banking center in the United States (with New York City being the largest). The state is also a center of American motorsports, with many NASCAR racing teams and related industries located near Charlotte. NASCAR recently announced that the NASCAR Hall of Fame will be built in Charlotte.

North Carolina is one of the largest film making states outside of California. Movie studios are located in Shelby, Raleigh, Durham, Charlotte, Asheville, and the most popular, EUE Screen Gems Studios in Wilmington. Some of the films and television shows filmed there include: Dawson's Creek, One Tree Hill, Cape Fear, Maximum Overdrive and The Crow.

North Carolina personal income tax is divided into 4 brackets, ranging from 6.0 percent to 8.25 percent. The state sales tax is 4.5 percent. Most taxable sales or purchases are subject to the state tax as well as the 2.5 percent local tax rate levied by all counties, for a combined 7 percent. Mecklenburg County has an additional 0.5 percent local tax for public transportation, bringing sales taxes there to a total 7.5 percent. Effective January 1, 2006, the total local rate of tax in Dare County increased to 3.5 percent, producing a combined state and local rate there of 8 percent. The property tax in North Carolina is a locally assessed tax, collected by the counties. The three main elements of the property tax system in North Carolina are real property, motor vehicles and personal property (inventories and household personal property are exempt).

Transportation

Airports

• Asheville Regional Airport
• Charlotte Douglas International Airport
• Fayetteville Regional Airport - Grannis Field
• Foothills Regional Airport (Morganton, North Carolina Lenoir, North Carolina)
• Goldsboro Wayne County Airport
• Hickory Regional Airport
• Lake Norman Regional Airport
• Piedmont Triad International Airport (Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point)
• Raleigh-Durham International Airport
• Rocky Mount Wilson Regional (Rocky Mount, North Carolina Wilson, North Carolina, Elm City, North Carolina)
• Statesville Regional Airport
• Wilmington International Airport

Major highways

Interstate 26 Interstate 40 Interstate 73 Interstate 74 Interstate 77 Interstate 85 Interstate 95 Interstate 240 Interstate 277 Interstate 440 Interstate 485 Interstate 540 Interstate 785

U.S. Route 1 U.S. Highway 15 U.S. Highway 17 U.S. Highway 19 U.S. Highway 25 U.S. Highway 52 U.S. Highway 64 U.S. Highway 70 U.S. Highway 74 U.S. Highway 76 U.S. Highway 117 U.S. Highway 158 U.S. Highway 178 U.S. Highway 220 U.S. Highway 421 U.S. Route 501

Law and government

The governor, lieutenant governor, and eight elected department heads form the North Carolina Council of State. Ten other department heads appointed by the governor form the North Carolina Cabinet. The state's current governor is Democrat Mike Easley.

The North Carolina General Assembly consists of two houses: a 50-member Senate and a 120-member House of Representatives. For the 2005�??2006 session, the current President Pro Tempore of the Senate is Democrat Marc Basnight (the Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina is the President of the Senate); The House Speaker is Democrat James B. Black. The prior term's power sharing Co-Speaker arrangement is no longer in effect, as the House Democrats won a decided victory and majority of the seats in the 2004 election.

In 2005, the state Legislature voted to implement a state lottery, nullifying North Carolina's reputation as the "anti-lottery" state, where owning a lottery ticket, even from another state, was once a felony. The lottery began selling tickets March 31, 2006. North Carolina remains a control state, although beer and wine can be sold by retailers.

The Supreme Court of North Carolina is the state's highest appellate court; it numbers seven justices. The North Carolina Court of Appeals is the only intermediate appellate court in the state; it consists of fifteen judges who rule in rotating panels of three. Together, the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals constitute the Appellate division of the court system.

The Trial division includes the Superior Court and the District Court. All felony criminal cases, civil cases involving more than $10,000 and misdemeanor and infraction appeals from District Court are tried in Superior Court. A jury of 12 hears the criminal cases.

Civil cases�??such as divorce, custody, child support and cases involving less than $10,000�??are heard in District Court, along with criminal cases involving misdemeanors and infractions. The trial of a criminal case in District Court is always without a jury. The District Court also hears juvenile cases involving children under the age of 16 who are delinquent and children under the age of 18 who are undisciplined, dependent, neglected or abused. Magistrates accept guilty pleas for minor misdemeanors, accept guilty pleas for traffic violations, and accept waivers of trial for worthless-check cases among other things. In civil cases, the magistrate is authorized to try small claims involving up to $4,000 including landlord eviction cases.

State constitution

Main article: North Carolina Constitution

North Carolina has had three constitutions:

• 1776: ratified December 18, 1776, as the first constitution of the independent state. The Declaration of Rights was ratified the preceding day.
• 1868: framed in accordance with the Reconstruction Acts after North Carolina was readmitted into the Union. It was a major reorganization and modification of the original into fourteen articles. It also introduced townships which each county was required to create, the only Southern state to do so.
• 1971: minor consolidation of the 1868 constitution and subsequent amendments.

Important cities and towns

Asheville Burlington Cary Chapel Hill Charlotte (largest city) Concord Durham Fayetteville Gastonia

Greensboro Greenville Hickory High Point Jacksonville Pinehurst (major golf resort) Raleigh (state capital) Rocky Mount Wilmington Winston-Salem New Bern (first state capital)

Education

Colleges and universities

Barber-Scotia College Barton College Belmont Abbey College Bennett College Brevard College Campbell University Catawba College Catawba Valley Community College Central Piedmont Community College Chowan College Davidson College Duke University Elon University Gardner-Webb University Greensboro College Guilford College High Point University John Wesley College Johnson C. Smith University Lees-McRae College Lenoir-Rhyne College Livingstone College Louisburg College Mars Hill College Meredith College Methodist College Montreat College Mount Olive College North Carolina Wesleyan College Piedmont Baptist College Peace College

Pfeiffer University Piedmont Baptist College Queen's University Roanoke Bible College St. Andrews Presbyterian College St. Augustine's College Sandhills Community College Salem College Shaw University University of North Carolina system : Appalachian State University East Carolina University Elizabeth City State University Fayetteville State University North Carolina A&T State University North Carolina Central University North Carolina School of the Arts North Carolina State University University of North Carolina at Asheville University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of North Carolina at Charlotte University of North Carolina at Greensboro University of North Carolina at Pembroke University of North Carolina at Wilmington Western Carolina University Winston-Salem State University Wake Forest University Warren Wilson College Western Piedmont Community College Wingate University

Professional sports teams

Despite having over eight million people, the disbursement of North Carolina's population over three major metropolitan areas left the state unable to attract any major professional sports league teams until recently. North Carolina remains without a Major League Baseball team despite numerous efforts to attract a team to the state (including a current push to relocate the Florida Marlins to Charlotte). Although more populous New Jersey also does not have an MLB team, North Carolina is the most populous state without a team from each of the major leagues either within or very close to the state's borders. For amateurs, the state holds the State Games of North Carolina each year.

Club	Sport	League
Carolina Hurricanes	Ice hockey	National Hockey League
Carolina Panthers	Football	National Football League
Charlotte Bobcats	Basketball	National Basketball Association
Charlotte Sting	Basketball	Women's National Basketball Association
Fayetteville Patriots	Basketball	NBA Development League
Asheville Tourists	Baseball	Minor League Baseball; South Atlantic League
Burlington Indians	Baseball	Minor League Baseball; Appalachian League
Carolina Mudcats	Baseball	Minor League Baseball; Southern League
Charlotte Knights	Baseball	Minor League Baseball; International League
Durham Bulls	Baseball	Minor League Baseball; International League
Greensboro Grasshoppers	Baseball	Minor League Baseball; South Atlantic League
Hickory Crawdads	Baseball	Minor League Baseball; South Atlantic League
Kannapolis Intimidators	Baseball	Minor League Baseball; South Atlantic League
Kinston Indians	Baseball	Minor League Baseball; Carolina League
Winston-Salem Warthogs	Baseball	Minor League Baseball; Carolina League
Carolina Dynamo	Soccer	USL Premier Development League
Carolina Dynamo Women	Soccer	W-League
Charlotte Lady Eagles	Soccer	W-League
Raleigh CASL Elite	Soccer	USL Premier Development League

Miscellaneous topics

The USS North Carolina was named in honor of the state.

Today, North Carolina is home to Fort Bragg, near Fayetteville; it is the largest and most comprehensive military base in the United States and is the headquarters of the XVIII Airborne Corps, 82nd Airborne Division, and the U.S. Army Special Operations Command. Next to Fort Bragg is Pope Air Force Base. North Carolina is also home to Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune which, when combined with nearby Marine bases MCAS Cherry Point, Camp Geiger, Camp Johnson, Stone Bay and Courthouse Bay, makes up the largest concentration of Marines and sailors in the world.

Interesting city names

Small towns/areas with interesting names:

• Bat Cave (in Henderson County, near Asheville)
• Buies Creek (in Harnett County, near Raleigh)
• Chinquapin (in Duplin County)
• Climax (in Guilford County, near Greensboro)
• Frog Level (in Pitt County)
• Frying Pan Landing (in Tyrrell County)
• Fuquay-Varina (in Wake County)
• Half-Hell Swamp (Brunswick County)
• Kill Devil Hills (in Dare County)
• Level Cross, home of NASCAR racing legend Richard Petty
• Lizard Lick (in Wake County, near Raleigh)
• Mount Airy (in Surry County, was the inspiration for Mayberry in the popular TV program The Andy Griffith Show, and is Griffith's birthplace)
• Pilot Mountain, near both its namesake and Mount Airy, referenced on The Andy Griffith Show as "Mount Pilot".
• Pinnacle, also near Pilot Mountain
• Red Bug, a "suburb" of Shallotte (Brunswick County)
• Rich Square (in Northampton County)
• Rockfish (in Hoke County)
• Sandy Mush (in Buncombe County)
• Soul City (in Warren County)
• Tickbite (in Pitt County)
• Welcome (in Davidson County)
• Whynot (near Seagrove)
• Shine (west of Snow Hill, NC)

See also

• List of topics related to North Carolina
• List of North Carolina Governors
• Order of the Long Leaf Pine
• North Carolina state symbols
• North Carolina Award
• List of individuals executed in North Carolina
• List of television stations in North Carolina
• List of radio stations in North Carolina
• List of people from North Carolina
• List of bands from North Carolina
• List of North Carolina county seats
• Scouting in North Carolina

Notes

References

Surveys

• James Clay and Douglas Orr, eds., North Carolina Atlas: Portrait of a Changing Southern State (University of North Carolina Press, 1971).
• Crow; Jeffrey J. and Larry E. Tise; Writing North Carolina History University of North Carolina Press, 1979
• Fleer; Jack D. North Carolina Government & Politics University of Nebraska Press, 1994
• Hawks; Francis L. History of North Carolina 2 vol 1857
• Marianne M. Kersey and Ran Coble, eds., North Carolina Focus: An Anthology on State Government, Politics, and Policy, 2d ed., (Raleigh: North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research, 1989).
• Lefler; Hugh Talmage. A Guide to the Study and Reading of North Carolina History University of North Carolina Press, 1963)
• Hugh Talmage Lefler and Albert Ray Newsome, North Carolina: The History of a Southern State University of North Carolina Press (1954, 1963, 1973)
• Paul Luebke, Tar Heel Politics: Myths and Realities (University of North Carolina Press, 1990).
• William S. Powell, North Carolina through Four Centuries University of North Carolina Press (1989).

Scholarly studies

Pre 1900

• Eric Anderson, Race and Politics in North Carolina, 1872-1901 (Louisiana State University Press, 1981).
• Bolton; Charles C. Poor Whites of the Antebellum South: Tenants and Laborers in Central North Carolina and Northeast Mississippi Duke University Press, 1994
• A. Roger Ekirch, "Poor Carolina": Politics and Society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729-1776 (University of North Carolina Press, 1981)
• Escott; Paul D. Many Excellent People: Power and Privilege in North Carolina, 1850-1900 University of North Carolina Press, 1985
• Fenn, Elizabeth A. and Peter H. Wood (1983). Natives and Newcomers: The Way We Lived in North Carolina Before 1770. University of North Carolina Press.
• Gilpatrick; Delbert Harold. Jeffersonian Democracy in North Carolina, 1789-1816 Columbia University Press. (1931)

Since 1900

• Abrams; Douglas Carl; Conservative Constraints: North Carolina and the New Deal University Press of Mississippi, 1992
• Badger; Anthony J. Prosperity Road: The New Deal, Tobacco, and North Carolina University of North Carolina Press, 1980
• Gilmore; Glenda Elizabeth. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 University of North Carolina Press, 1996
• Grundy; Pamela. Learning to Win: Sports, Education, and Social Change in Twentieth-Century North Carolina University of North Carolina Press, 2001
• Key, V. O. Southern Politics in State and Nation (1951)
• Elmer L. Puryear, Democratic Party Dissension in North Carolina, 1928-1936 (University of North Carolina Press, 1962).
• Elizabeth A. Taylor, "The Women's Suffrage Movement in North Carolina", North Carolina Historical Review, (January 1961): 45-62, and ibid. (April 1961): 173-89;
• Weare; Walter B. Black Business in the New South: A Social History of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company University of Illinois Press, 1993
• Wood; Phillip J. Southern Capitalism: The Political Economy of North Carolina, 1880-1980 Duke University Press, 1986

Primary sources

• Lindley S. Butler and Alan D. Watson, eds., The North Carolina Experience:An Interpretive and Documentary History (University of North Carolina Press, 1984), essays by historians and selected related primary sources.
• John L. Cheney, Jr., ed., North Carolina Government, 1585-1979: A Narrative and Statistical History (Raleigh: Department of the Secretary of State, 1981)
• Jack Claiborne and William Price, eds. Discovering North Carolina: A Tar Heel Reader (University of North Carolina Press, 1991).
• Hugh Lefler, North Carolina History Told by Contemporaries (University of North Carolina Press, numerous editions since 1934)
• H. G. Jones, North Carolina Illustrated, 1524-1984 (University of North Carolina Press, 1984)
• Yearns, W. Buck and John G. Barret; North Carolina Civil War Documentary (University of North Carolina Press, 1980)
• North Carolina Manual, published biennially by the Department of the Secretary of State since 1941.
• (1629). The Avalon Project : Sir Robert Heath's Patent. (http) Sir Robert Heath's Patent 5 Charles 1st; October, 30 1629. URL accessed on February 13, 2006.

External links

• North Carolina government
• US Census Bureau
• North Carolina Travel and Tourism Website
• North Carolina Authors and Literature at Southern Literary Review
• North Carolina Data
• North Carolina County Maps Full color county maps.
• Old Growth Forest Wilderness Areas in Western North Carolina
• Old Growth Forest Wilderness Areas in Eastern North Carolina
• eNCyclopedia from the State Library of North Carolina
• North Carolina Court System official site
• Goldsboro, NC

	State of North Carolina
State capital	Raleigh
Regions	Coastal Plain | Land of the Sky | Metro Charlotte | Piedmont | Piedmont Triad | Blue Ridge Mountains | Outer Banks | Smoky Mountains | The Triangle
Major cities	Asheville | Burlington | Cary | Chapel Hill | Charlotte | Concord | Durham | Fayetteville | Gastonia | Goldsboro | Greensboro | Greenville | Hickory | High Point | Jacksonville | Raleigh | Rocky Mount | Wilmington | Wilson | Winston-Salem
Counties	Alamance | Alexander | Alleghany | Anson | Ashe | Avery | Beaufort | Bertie | Bladen | Brunswick | Buncombe | Burke | Cabarrus | Caldwell | Camden | Carteret | Caswell | Catawba | Chatham | Cherokee | Chowan | Clay | Cleveland | Columbus | Craven | Cumberland | Currituck | Dare | Davidson | Davie | Duplin | Durham | Edgecombe | Forsyth | Franklin | Gaston | Gates | Graham | Granville | Greene | Guilford | Halifax | Harnett | Haywood | Henderson | Hertford | Hoke | Hyde | Iredell | Jackson | Johnston | Jones | Lee | Lenoir | Lincoln | Macon | Madison | Martin | McDowell | Mecklenburg | Mitchell | Montgomery | Moore | Nash | New Hanover | Northampton | Onslow | Orange | Pamlico | Pasquotank | Pender | Perquimans | Person | Pitt | Polk | Randolph | Richmond | Robeson | Rockingham | Rowan | Rutherford | Sampson | Scotland | Stanly | Stokes | Surry | Swain | Transylvania | Tyrrell | Union | Vance | Wake | Warren | Washington | Watauga | Wayne | Wilkes | Wilson | Yadkin | Yancey

Political divisions of the United States
States	Alabama | Alaska | Arizona | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Delaware | Florida | Georgia | Hawaii | Idaho | Illinois | Indiana | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Louisiana | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota | Mississippi | Missouri | Montana | Nebraska | Nevada | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New Mexico | New York | North Carolina | North Dakota | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Pennsylvania | Rhode Island | South Carolina | South Dakota | Tennessee | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | West Virginia | Wisconsin | Wyoming
Federal district	District of Columbia
Insular areas	American Samoa | Guam | Northern Mariana Islands | Puerto Rico | Virgin Islands
COFA	Republic of the Marshall Islands | Republic of Palau | Federated States of Micronesia
Minor outlying islands	Baker Island | Howland Island | Jarvis Island | Johnston Atoll | Kingman Reef | Midway Atoll | Navassa Island | Palmyra Atoll | Wake Island