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{{US state | Name = North Carolina| Fullname = The State of North Carolina | Flag = Flag of North Carolina.svg| Flaglink = [Flag of North Carolina | Seal = North Carolina state seal.png | Map = Map of USA NC.svg | Nickname = [Tar Heel State; Old North State;
The [Rip Van Winkle State | | Motto = [Esse quam videri (Latin: To be, rather than to seem)| Capital = [Raleigh, North Carolina| LargestCity = [Charlotte, North Carolina| LargestMetro = [Charlotte metropolitan area| Governor = [Mike Easley (D)| Senators = [Elizabeth Dole (R)[Richard Burr (R) | PostalAbbreviation = NC | OfficialLang = [English language | AreaRank = 28th | TotalAreaUS = 53,865 | TotalArea = 139,509 | LandAreaUS = 48,748 | LandArea = 126,256 | Coastline = 301 | WaterAreaUS = 5,107 | WaterArea = 13,227 | PCWater = 9.5 | PopRank = 10th | 2000Pop = 8,049,313 | DensityRank = 17th | 2000DensityUS = 165.24 | 2000Density = 63.80 | AdmittanceOrder = 12th | AdmittanceDate = November 21, [ | TimeZone = Eastern Standard Time Zone: UTC-5/Daylight saving time | Latitude = 33° 50′ N to 36° 35′ N | Longitude = 75° 28′ W to 84° 19′ W | WidthUS = 150 | Width = 240 | LengthUS = 560{{cite web | year = May 8 [ | url = http://www.secretary.state.nc.us/kidspg/geog.htm | title = North Carolina Climate and Geography | work = NC Kids Page | publisher = North Carolina Department of the Secretary of State | accessdate = 2006-11-07--> | Length = hello | HighestPoint = Mount Mitchell (North Carolina){{cite web| year =[29 April [ | url =http://erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/booklets/elvadist/elvadist.html#Highest| title =Elevations and Distances in the United States| publisher =U.S Geological Survey| accessdate = 2006-11-06--> | HighestElevUS = 6,684 | HighestElev = 2,038 | MeanElevUS = 705 | MeanElev = 215 | LowestPoint = [Atlantic Ocean | LowestElevUS = 0 | LowestElev = 0 | ISOCode = US-NC | Website = www.nc.gov -->North Carolina () is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the Southern United States of the United States of America. It was one of the original Thirteen Colonies, originally known as Province of Carolina, and the home of the Roanoke Island in the Americas. On 20 May, 1861, it became the last of the Confederate States of America to secede from the Union (American Civil War), and was readmitted on 4 July, 1868. It was also the location of the first successful powered heavier-than-air flight by the Wright brothers at Kill Devil Hills near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903. Today, it is a fast-growing state with an increasingly diverse economy and population. As of 1 July, 2006, the population estimate is 8,856,505 (a 10% increase since 1 April, 2000), and the capital is Raleigh.

North Carolina has a wide range of elevation, from sea level on the coast to almost 6,700 feet (2,042 m) in the mountains. The climate in the coastal and Piedmont (United States) regions of eastern and central North Carolina is similar to other southern states such as Georgia (U.S. state) and South Carolina, while the climate in the western mountains is closer to that found in New England or the upper Midwest. While the coastal plains, especially the tidewater areas, are strongly influenced by the Atlantic Ocean, the western, mountainous part of the state is more than from the coast, resulting in considerably less maritime influence. As such, the climate of the state ranges from a warm, humid subtropical climate near the coast to a humid continental climate in the mountains. Most of the state falls in the humid subtropical zone.

Geography in the foreground with Grandfather Mountain in the extreme background as seen from Blowing Rock, North Carolina.

mountains as seen from Sunset Rock in Highlands, North Carolina., one of the Outer Banks attractions.

North Carolina is bordered by South Carolina on the south, Georgia (U.S. state) 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 United States state in the subcategory of being one of the South Atlantic States.North Carolina consists of three main geographic sections: the Atlantic Coastal Plain, which occupies the eastern 45% of the state; the Piedmont (United States) region, which contains the middle 35%; and the Appalachian Mountains and Foothills (North Carolina). The Outer Banks form two sounds—Albemarle Sound in the north and Pamlico Sound in the south; they are the two largest landlocked sounds in the United States. Immediately inland, the coastal plain is relatively flat, with rich soils ideal for growing tobacco, soybeans, and cotton. The coastal plain is North Carolina's most rural section, with few large towns or cities, and agriculture remains an important industry. The major rivers of this section, the Neuse River, Tar River, Pamlico River, Cape Fear River, and Roanoke River, tend to be slow-moving and wide.

The coastal plain transitions to the Piedmont region along the "fall line", a line which marks the elevation at which waterfalls first appear on streams and rivers. The Piedmont region of central North Carolina is the state's most urbanized and densely-populated section - all five of the state's largest cities are located in the Piedmont. It consists of gently rolling countryside frequently broken by hills or low mountain ridges. A number of small, isolated, and deeply eroded mountain ranges and peaks are located in the Piedmont, including the Sauratown Mountains, Pilot Mountain (North Carolina), the Uwharrie Mountains, Crowder's Mountain, King's Pinnacle, the Brushy Mountains (North Carolina), and the South Mountains (North Carolina). The Piedmont ranges from about 300–400 foot (unit of length) (90–120 metre) elevation in the east to over 1,000 feet (300 m) in the west. The major rivers of the Piedmont, such as the Yadkin River and Catawba River, tend to be fast-flowing, shallow, and narrow.

The Western North Carolina 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, Great Balsam Mountains, Mount Pisgah (North Carolina) Mountains, and the Black Mountains (North Carolina). The Black Mountains are the highest in the Eastern United States, and culminate in Mount Mitchell (North Carolina) at 6,684 feet (2,037 m). It is the highest point east of the Mississippi River. Although agriculture remains important, tourism has become the dominant industry in the mountains. Due to the higher altitude in the mountains, the climate often differs starkly from the rest of the state. Winters in western North Carolina typically feature significant snowfall and subfreezing temperatures more akin to a northern state than a southern one.

North Carolina has 17 major river basins; five of the state's river basins - the Hiwassee, Little Tennessee, French Broad, Watauga and New - are part of the Mississippi River Basin, which drains to the Gulf of Mexico. All the others flow to the Atlantic Ocean. Of the 17 basins, 11 originate within the state of North Carolina, but only four are contained entirely within the state's borders - the Cape Fear, Neuse, White Oak and Tar-Pamlico.

Climate The three geographical divisions of North Carolina are useful when discussing the climate of the state.

The coastal plain is influenced by the Atlantic Ocean, which keeps temperatures mild in the winter and moderate in the summer. Daytime high temperatures on the coast average less than 89 °F (31.6 °C) during the summer. In the winter, the coast has the mildest temperatures in the state, with daytime temperatures rarely dropping below 40 °F (4.4 °C). The coastal plain usually receives only one inch (2.5 cm) of snow and/or ice annually, and in some years there may be no snow or ice at all. The Atlantic Ocean has less influence on the Piedmont region, and as a result the Piedmont has hotter summers and colder winters than the coast. Daytime highs in the Piedmont usually average over 90 °F (32.2 °C) in the summer. While it is not common for temperatures to reach over 100 °F (37.8 °C) in North Carolina, when it happens, the highest temperatures are to be found in the lower areas of the Piedmont, especially around the city of Fayetteville, North Carolina.In the winter, the Piedmont is much less mild than the coast, with daytime temperatures that usually reach in the mid to upper 50's, while low to mid 60's are common winter highs around the coast. The region averages anywhere from 3-5 inches of snowfall annually in the Charlotte area to 6-8 inches in the Raleigh-Durham area. The Piedmont is especially notorious for sleet and freezing rain, which can be heavy enough in some storms to snarl traffic and collapse trees and power lines. Annual precipitation and humidity is lower in the Piedmont than either the mountains or the coast, but even at its lowest, the precipitation is a generous 40 in (102 cm) per year. The Appalachian Mountains are the coolest area of the state, with daytime temperatures averaging in the 40's for highs in the winter and often falling into the teens (−9 °C) or lower in winter nights, and relatively cool summers rarely rising above 80 °F (26.7 °C). Snowfall in the mountains is usually 14–20 in (36–51 cm) per year, but is often greater in the higher elevations. For example, during the Blizzard of 1993 over 50 inches of snow fell on Mount Mitchell.

Severe weather is not a rare event in North Carolina. On average, the state receives a direct hit from a hurricane once a decade, and a tropical storm every 3 or 4 years, although in some years several hurricanes or tropical storms can either directly hit the state, or brush across the coastal areas. Only Florida and Louisiana are hit by hurricanes more often. On average, North Carolina has 50 days of thunderstorm activity per year, with some storms becoming severe enough to produce hail and damaging winds. Although many people believe that hurricanes only menace coastal areas, the rare hurricane which moves inland quickly enough can cause severe damage far inland. In 1989 Hurricane Hugo caused heavy damage in Charlotte and even as far inland as the Blue Ridge Mountains in the northwestern part of the state. North Carolina averages less than 20 tornadoes per year, and many of these are produced by hurricanes or tropical storms along the coastal plain. Nonetheless, tornadoes from thunderstorms are a risk, especially in the Piedmont region of central North Carolina.

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History Native Americans and The Lost Colony and his sonNorth Carolina was originally inhabited by many different native peoples, including the Cherokee, Tuscarora (tribe), Cheraw (tribe), Pamlico, Meherrin, Coree, Machapunga, Cape Fear Indians, Waxhaws, Saponi, Tutelo, Waccamaw Siouan, Lumbee, Coharie, and Catawba (tribe). North Carolina was the second American territory the United Kingdom 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 people child to be born in North America, was born in North Carolina. Dare County, NC is named for her.

Colonial Period and Revolutionary War The first permanent European settlers of North Carolina were British people colonists who migrated 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.Fenn and Wood, Natives and Newcomers, pp. 24-25 By 1663, this northeastern area of the Province of Carolina, known as the Albemarle Settlements, was experiencing full-scale British settlement.Powell, North Carolina Through Four Centuries, p. 105 During the same period, the English monarch Charles II of England gave the province to the Lords Proprietors, a group of noblemen who had helped restore Charles to the throne in 1660. The new province of "Carolina" was named in honor and memory of King Charles I of England (Latin: Carolus). In 1712, North Carolina became a separate colony and with the exception of the John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville holdings, it became a royal colony seventeen years later.Lefler and Newsome, (1973) There was some difference in the settlement patterns of eastern and western North Carolina, which would affect the political, economic, and social life of the state from the eighteenth until the twentieth century. Eastern North Carolina was settled largely by immigrants from England and the Highland Scots. Western North Carolina was settled largely by Scots-Irish and Germans Protestants, the so-called "cohee". During the Revolutionary War the English and Highland Scots of eastern North Carolina tended to remain loyal to the British Crown, while the Scots-Irish and German settlers of western North Carolina tended to favor American independence from 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, through the Halifax Resolves passed by the North Carolina Provincial Congress. The dates of both of these independence-related events are memorialized on the Flag of North Carolina and Seal of North Carolina. North Carolina often witnessed fierce guerilla warfare between bands of pro-independence and pro-British colonists throughout the Revolutionary War. A major American victory in the war took place at King's Pinnacle along the North Carolina-South Carolina border. On October 7, 1780 a force of 1000 mountain men from western North Carolina (including what is today the State of Tennessee) overwhelmed a force of some 1000 British troops led by Major Patrick Ferguson. Most of the British soldiers in this battle were Carolinians who had remained loyal to the British Crown (they were called "Tories"). The American victory at Kings Mountain gave the advantage to colonists who favored American independence over the Tory colonists, and prevented the British Army from recruiting new soldiers from the Tories. The road to Yorktown, Virginia and America's independence from England led through North Carolina. As the British Army moved north from victories in Charleston, South Carolina and Camden, South Carolina, South Carolina, the Southern Division of the Continental Army and local militia prepared to meet them. Following General Daniel Morgan's victory over the British Cavalry Commander Banastre Tarleton at the Battle of Cowpens on January 17, 1781, southern commander Nathanael Greene led British Lord Charles Cornwallis across the heartland of North Carolina, and away from Cornwallis's base of supply in Charleston, South Carolina. This campaign is known as "The Race to the Dan" or "The Race for the River."Lefler and Newsome, (1973)

Generals Greene and Cornwallis finally met at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in present-day Greensboro, North Carolina on March 15, 1781. Although the Kingdom of Great Britain troops held the field at the end of the battle, their casualties at the hands of the numerically superior American Army were crippling. Following this "Pyhrric victory", Cornwallis chose to move to the Virginia coastline to get reinforcements, and to allow the British Navy to protect his battered army. This decision would result in Cornwallis's eventual defeat at Yorktown, Virginia later in 1781, a victory which guaranteed American independence.

Antebellum Period On November 21, 1789, North Carolina became the twelfth state to ratify the Constitution. In 1840, it completed the North Carolina State Capitol building in Raleigh, North Carolina, still standing today. Unlike many other Southern states, North Carolina never developed a dominant slaveholding aristocracy, and middle-class yeomen tended to control the state government. Most of North Carolina's slaveowners and large plantations were located in the eastern part of the state; western North Carolinians tended to be non-slaveowning subsistence farmers. In mid-century, the state's rural and commercial areas were connected by the construction of a 129–mile (208 km) wooden plank road, known as a "farmer' railroad," from Fayetteville, North Carolina in the east to Bethania, North Carolina (northwest of Winston-Salem, North Carolina).Lefler and Newsome, (1973) 0n October 25, 1836 construction began on the Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad NC Business History to connect the port city of Wilmington, North Carolina with the state capital of Raleigh, North Carolina. In 1849 the North Carolina Railroad was created by act of the legislature to extend that railroad west to Greensboro, North Carolina, High Point, North Carolina, and Charlotte, North Carolina. During the Civil War the Wilmington-to-Raleigh stretch of the railroad would be vital to the Confederate war effort; supplies shipped into Wilmington would be moved by rail through Raleigh to the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. During the antebellum period North Carolina was an overwhelmingly rural state, even by Southern standards. In 1860 only one North Carolina town, the port city of Wilmington, North Carolina, had a population of more than 10,000. Raleigh, North Carolina, the state capital, had barely more than 5,000 residents.

Civil War In 1860, North Carolina was a slave state with a relatively small slave population (compared to other Southern states). However, it refused to join the Confederate States of America until President Abraham Lincoln called on it to invade its sister-state, South Carolina. The state was the site of few battles, but it provided at least 125,000 troops to the Confederacy— far more than any other 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 Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Richmond, Virginia. Even after secession, a very small number of North Carolinians refused to support the Confederacy; this was particularly true of non-slave-owning farmers in the state's mountains and western Piedmont region, who had migrated from the North. Some of these farmers remained neutral during the American Civil War, while a small minority covertly supported the Union (American Civil War) cause during the conflict. Even so, Confederate troops from all parts of North Carolina served in virtually all the major battles of the Army of Northern Virginia, the Confederacy's most famous army. The largest battle fought in North Carolina was at Battle of Bentonville, which was a futile attempt by Confederate General Joseph Johnston to slow Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's advance through the Carolinas in the spring of 1865.Lefler and Newsome, (1973) In April 1865 Johnston surrendered to Sherman at Bennett Place, in what is today Durham, North Carolina. This was the last major Confederate Army to surrender. North Carolina's port city of Wilmington, North Carolina was the last Confederate port to fall to the Union, it fell in the spring of 1865 after the nearby Second Battle of Fort Fisher.

The first Confederate soldier to be killed in the Civil War was Private Henry Wyatt, a North Carolinian. He was killed in the Battle of Big Bethel in June 1861. At the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, the 26th North Carolina Regiment participated in Pickett's Charge and advanced the farthest into the Northern lines of any Confederate regiment. At Appomattox Court House in Virginia in April 1865, the 75th North Carolina Regiment, a cavalry unit, fired the last shots of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the Civil War. For many years, North Carolinians proudly boasted that they had been "First at Bethel, Farthest at Gettysburg, and Last at Appomattox."

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



According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2006, North Carolina has an estimated population of 8,856,505, which is an increase of 184,046, or 2.1%, from the prior year and an increase of 810,014, or 10.0%, 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 293,761 people (that is 749,959 births minus 456,198 deaths) and an increase due to net migration of 527,991 people into the state. Immigration to the United States from outside the United States resulted in a net increase of 180,986 people, and migration within the country produced a net increase of 347,005 people. Between 2005 and 2006, North Carolina passed New Jersey to become the 10th most populous state. Table 1: Estimates of Population Change for the United States and States, and for Puerto Rico and State Rankings: July 1, 2005 to July 1, 2006. United States Census Bureau. December 22, 2006. Last accessed December 22, 2006.

North Carolina has historically been a rural state, with most of the population living on farms and in small towns. However, over the last 30 years the state has undergone rapid urbanization, and today the residents of North Carolina live primarily in urban and suburban areas, as is the case in most of the United States. In particular, the cities of Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina have become major urban centers, with large, diverse, mainly affluent and rapidly-growing populations. Most of this growth in Multiculturalism has been fueled by immigrants from Latin America, India, and Southeast Asia.

The center of population of North Carolina is located in Randolph County, North Carolina, in the town of Seagrove, North Carolina.

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

Ancestry The largest Maps of American ancestries in North Carolina are:

Most populated counties {| class="wikitable"! County !! Seat !! 2010 Projection|-| Mecklenburg County, North Carolina || Charlotte, NC || 925,084|-| Wake County, North Carolina || Raleigh, North Carolina || 900,072|-| Guilford County, North Carolina || Greensboro, North Carolina || 474,605|-| Forsyth County, North Carolina || Winston-Salem, North Carolina || 350,784|-| Cumberland County, North Carolina || Fayetteville, North Carolina || 311,777|-| Durham County, North Carolina || Durham, North Carolina || 262,256|-| Buncombe County, North Carolina || Asheville, North Carolina || 234,697|-| Gaston County, North Carolina || Gastonia, North Carolina || 205,489|-| Union County, North Carolina || Monroe, North Carolina || 203,527|-| New Hanover County, North Carolina || Wilmington, North Carolina || 200,401|}


African Americans African Americans make up a quarter of North Carolina's population and the state experienced a growth of middle-class blacks since the 1970s. 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 farmer" farmers were non-slave-holding, private land owners of tracts of approximately 500 acres (2 km²) or less. African-American communities number by the hundreds in rural counties in the south-central and northeast, and in predominantly black neighborhoods in the cities: Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham, Greensboro, Fayetteville, Wilmington and Winston-Salem. By contrast, relatively few blacks live in the state's mountains and rural areas of the western Piedmont, and in some mountain counties the black population has historically numbered in the few dozens at most.North Carolina harbored the famous Greensboro Four of 1960, an important event to the American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968).

European Americans North Carolinians of Scots-Irish American, Scottish American and English American ancestry are concentrated in the western mountains, coastal areas, and rural areas of the central Piedmont. In the Winston-Salem, NC area, there is a substantial population of German American ancestry from the migration of members of the Moravian Church during the mid-18th century. The coastal region attracted a history of European immigration, like Swiss-Germans who settled New Bern, North Carolina in the late 18th century.

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

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



Hispanics/Latinos Since 1990 the state has seen a boom in the number of Hispanics in the United States/Latinos. Once chiefly employed as migrant labor, the increase in Hispanics since 1990 can be attributed in part to the ease of access to low skilled jobs that are the first step on the economic ladder. As a result growing numbers of Hispanics are settling in the state, mainly from Mexico, Central America, and the Dominican Republic. Hispanic neighborhoods are found in the cities and there are sizable populations of Cuban Americans and Puerto Ricans in the United States in North Carolina. In 2005, the Pew Hispanic Center estimated that 300,000 — roughly 65 percent of North Carolina’s Latino population — are illegal immigrants, based on the Census Bureau’s population estimates. The population has grown from 76,726 in 1990 to 517,617 in 2005, an average increase of 13.5% per year.

Asian Americans The state has one of the most rapid growing Asian American, specifically Indian American and Vietnamese American, populations in the country; the populations nearly quintupled and tripled, respectively, between 1990 and 2002. The earliest record of Asian immigration in North Carolina goes back to the mid 1800s when the first Chinese Americans were hired as agricultural workers. The famous Chinese-Malay American Siamese twins - Eng and Chang Bunker - settled in Wilkesboro, North Carolina in 1839. Japanese Americans, Filipino Americans, and Koreans arrived in the early and mid 20th century. Recent estimates suggest that the state's Asian American population has increased significantly since 2000. The Hmong people population in North Carolina has grown by 12,000 since the 1980s.See a report on immigration by The Center for New North Carolinians of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, entitled Ethnic Groups in North Carolina. Retrieved July 29, 2007.

Religion North Carolina, like other Southern United States states, has traditionally been overwhelmingly Protestant, with the largest Protestant denomination being the Southern Baptists. However, the rapid influx of Northern United States and immigrants from Latin America is steadily increasing the number of Roman Catholics and Judaism in the state, and the numerical dominance of the Baptist Church is beginning to decline. This is especially evident in the urban areas of the state, where the population is more culturally diverse and the bulk of the growth has occurred. However, in many rural counties the Southern Baptists remain the dominant Christian church. The second-largest Protestant church in North Carolina are the Methodists, who are strong in the upper Piedmont, and especially in populous Guilford County. There are also substantial numbers of Quakers in Guilford County, and northeastern North Carolina. The Presbyterians have historically had a strong presence in Charlotte, the state's largest city. The current religious affiliations of the people of North Carolina are shown below:



Economy According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the state's 2004 total gross state product was $336 billion. Its 2005 per capita personal income was $31,029, 36th in the nation. North Carolina's agricultural outputs include poultry and Egg (food), tobacco, Hog (swine), milk, Nursery (horticulture) stock, cattle, sweet potatoes, and soybeans. However, North Carolina is the state most affected by offshoring and industrial growth in countries like China; one in five North Carolina manufacturing jobs has been lost to overseas competition.Fishman, China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World, p. 179 There has been a distinct difference in the economic growth of North Carolina's urban areas and its rural, small-town areas. While large cities such as Charlotte, North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina, Cary, North Carolina, and others have experienced rapid population and economic growth over the last thirty years, many of the state's small towns have suffered from job and population loss. Most of North Carolina's small towns historically developed around textile and furniture factories; as these factories have closed and moved to low-wage markets in Asia and Latin America the small towns that depended upon them have suffered.

Agriculture and manufacturing Over the past century, North Carolina has grown to become a national leader in agriculture, Banking, and manufacturing. The state's industrial output—mainly textiles, Chemical industry, electrical equipment, paper and Wood pulp—ranked eighth in the nation in the early 1990s. The textile industry, which was once a mainstay of the state's economy, has been steadily losing jobs to producers in Latin America and Asia for the past 25 years, though the state remains the largest textile employer in the United States.http://www.soc.duke.edu/NC_GlobalEconomy/textiles/overview.php Over the past few years, another important Carolina industry, furniture production, has also been hard-hit by jobs moving to Asia (especially China). Tobacco, one of North Carolina's earliest sources of revenue, remains vital to the local economy, although concerns about whether the federal government will continue to support subsidies for tobacco farmers has led some growers to switch to other crops like wine or leave farming altogether. North Carolina is the leading producer of tobacco in the country.

Finance, Technology and Research growing skylineCharlotte, North Carolina, North Carolina's largest city, continues to experience rapid growth, in large part due to the banking & finance industry. Charlotte is now the second largest banking center in the United States (after New York City), and is home to Bank of America and Wachovia. The Charlotte metropolitan area is also home to 5 other Fortune 500 companies.

The information technology and biotechnology industries have been steadily on the rise since the creation of the Research Triangle Park (RTP) in the 1950s. Located between Raleigh, North Carolina and Durham, North Carolina (mostly in Durham County), its proximity to local research universities has no doubt helped to fuel growth. Meanwhile, beginning in the 1980s,

The North Carolina Research Campus underway in Kannapolis, North Carolina (approx. 30 miles northeast of Charlotte) promises to enrich and bolster the Charlotte area in the same way that RTP changed the Raleigh-Durham region. Encompassing 5.8 million square feet, the complex is a collaborative project involving Duke University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and N.C. State University, along with private and corporate investors and developers. The facility incorporates corporate, academic, commercial and residential space, oriented toward research and development (R&D) and biotechnology. Similarly, in downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the Piedmont Triad Research Park is undergoing an expansion. Approximately thirty miles to the east of Winston Salem's research park, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and North Carolina A&T State University have joined forces to create the Gateway University Research Park, a technology-based research entity which will focus its efforts on areas such as nanotechnology, biotechnology & biochemistry, environmental sciences, and genetics among other science-based disciplines.

Film and the arts Film studios are located in Shelby, North Carolina, Raleigh, Durham, Charlotte, Asheville, North Carolina, and Wilmington, North Carolina. Some of the best-known films and television shows filmed in the state include: All the Real Girls, Being There, Blue Velvet, Bull Durham, The Color Purple (film), Cabin Fever (film), Cape Fear (1991 film), The Crow (film), Dawson's Creek, Dirty Dancing, Evil Dead 2, The Fugitive (1993 film), The Green Mile (film), Hannibal (film), The Last of the Mohicans (1992 film), Nell, One Tree Hill (TV series), Patch Adams (film), Shallow Hal, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, and 28 Days (film). The television show most associated with North Carolina is The Andy Griffith Show, which aired on CBS-TV from 1960 to 1968. The series is set in the fictional small town of Mayberry, North Carolina, and was based on the real-life town of Mount Airy, North Carolina, although it was filmed in California. Mount Airy is the hometown of actor Andy Griffith. The show is still popular in reruns and is frequently shown in Broadcast syndication around the nation. North Carolina is also home to some of the Southeast's biggest film festivals, including the RiverRun International Film Festival in Winston-Salem and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, North Carolina.

Tax revenue North Carolina personal income tax is slightly progressive tax, with four incremental brackets ranging from 6.0% to 8.25%. The state sales tax is 4.25%. Most taxable sales or purchases are subject to the state tax as well as the 2.5% local tax rate levied by all counties, for a combined 6.75%. Mecklenburg County has an additional 0.5% local tax for public transportation, bringing sales taxes there to a total 7.25%. The total local rate of tax in Dare County is 3.5%, producing a combined state and local rate there of 7.75%.http://www.dornc.com/taxes/sales/dare_county_rate.html In addition, there is a 29.9¢ tax per gallon of Gasoline, a 30¢ tax per pack of cigarettes, a {{US state | Name = North Carolina| Fullname = The State of North Carolina | Flag = Flag of North Carolina.svg| Flaglink = [Flag of North Carolina | Seal = North Carolina state seal.png | Map = Map of USA NC.svg | Nickname = [Tar Heel State; Old North State;
The [Rip Van Winkle State | | Motto = [Esse quam videri (Latin: To be, rather than to seem)| Capital = [Raleigh, North Carolina| LargestCity = [Charlotte, North Carolina| LargestMetro = [Charlotte metropolitan area| Governor = [Mike Easley (D)| Senators = [Elizabeth Dole (R)[Richard Burr (R) | PostalAbbreviation = NC | OfficialLang = [English language | AreaRank = 28th | TotalAreaUS = 53,865 | TotalArea = 139,509 | LandAreaUS = 48,748 | LandArea = 126,256 | Coastline = 301 | WaterAreaUS = 5,107 | WaterArea = 13,227 | PCWater = 9.5 | PopRank = 10th | 2000Pop = 8,049,313 | DensityRank = 17th | 2000DensityUS = 165.24 | 2000Density = 63.80 | AdmittanceOrder = 12th | AdmittanceDate = November 21, [ | TimeZone = Eastern Standard Time Zone: UTC-5/Daylight saving time | Latitude = 33° 50′ N to 36° 35′ N | Longitude = 75° 28′ W to 84° 19′ W | WidthUS = 150 | Width = 240 | LengthUS = 560{{cite web | year = May 8 [ | url = http://www.secretary.state.nc.us/kidspg/geog.htm | title = North Carolina Climate and Geography | work = NC Kids Page | publisher = North Carolina Department of the Secretary of State | accessdate = 2006-11-07--> | Length = hello | HighestPoint = Mount Mitchell (North Carolina){{cite web| year =[29 April [ | url =http://erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/booklets/elvadist/elvadist.html#Highest| title =Elevations and Distances in the United States| publisher =U.S Geological Survey| accessdate = 2006-11-06--> | HighestElevUS = 6,684 | HighestElev = 2,038 | MeanElevUS = 705 | MeanElev = 215 | LowestPoint = [Atlantic Ocean | LowestElevUS = 0 | LowestElev = 0 | ISOCode = US-NC | Website = www.nc.gov -->North Carolina () is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the Southern United States of the United States of America. It was one of the original Thirteen Colonies, originally known as Province of Carolina, and the home of the Roanoke Island in the Americas. On 20 May, 1861, it became the last of the Confederate States of America to secede from the Union (American Civil War), and was readmitted on 4 July, 1868. It was also the location of the first successful powered heavier-than-air flight by the Wright brothers at Kill Devil Hills near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903. Today, it is a fast-growing state with an increasingly diverse economy and population. As of 1 July, 2006, the population estimate is 8,856,505 (a 10% increase since 1 April, 2000), and the capital is Raleigh.

North Carolina has a wide range of elevation, from sea level on the coast to almost 6,700 feet (2,042 m) in the mountains. The climate in the coastal and Piedmont (United States) regions of eastern and central North Carolina is similar to other southern states such as Georgia (U.S. state) and South Carolina, while the climate in the western mountains is closer to that found in New England or the upper Midwest. While the coastal plains, especially the tidewater areas, are strongly influenced by the Atlantic Ocean, the western, mountainous part of the state is more than from the coast, resulting in considerably less maritime influence. As such, the climate of the state ranges from a warm, humid subtropical climate near the coast to a humid continental climate in the mountains. Most of the state falls in the humid subtropical zone.

Geography in the foreground with Grandfather Mountain in the extreme background as seen from Blowing Rock, North Carolina.

mountains as seen from Sunset Rock in Highlands, North Carolina., one of the Outer Banks attractions.

North Carolina is bordered by South Carolina on the south, Georgia (U.S. state) 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 United States state in the subcategory of being one of the South Atlantic States.North Carolina consists of three main geographic sections: the Atlantic Coastal Plain, which occupies the eastern 45% of the state; the Piedmont (United States) region, which contains the middle 35%; and the Appalachian Mountains and Foothills (North Carolina). The Outer Banks form two sounds—Albemarle Sound in the north and Pamlico Sound in the south; they are the two largest landlocked sounds in the United States. Immediately inland, the coastal plain is relatively flat, with rich soils ideal for growing tobacco, soybeans, and cotton. The coastal plain is North Carolina's most rural section, with few large towns or cities, and agriculture remains an important industry. The major rivers of this section, the Neuse River, Tar River, Pamlico River, Cape Fear River, and Roanoke River, tend to be slow-moving and wide.

The coastal plain transitions to the Piedmont region along the "fall line", a line which marks the elevation at which waterfalls first appear on streams and rivers. The Piedmont region of central North Carolina is the state's most urbanized and densely-populated section - all five of the state's largest cities are located in the Piedmont. It consists of gently rolling countryside frequently broken by hills or low mountain ridges. A number of small, isolated, and deeply eroded mountain ranges and peaks are located in the Piedmont, including the Sauratown Mountains, Pilot Mountain (North Carolina), the Uwharrie Mountains, Crowder's Mountain, King's Pinnacle, the Brushy Mountains (North Carolina), and the South Mountains (North Carolina). The Piedmont ranges from about 300–400 foot (unit of length) (90–120 metre) elevation in the east to over 1,000 feet (300 m) in the west. The major rivers of the Piedmont, such as the Yadkin River and Catawba River, tend to be fast-flowing, shallow, and narrow.

The Western North Carolina 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, Great Balsam Mountains, Mount Pisgah (North Carolina) Mountains, and the Black Mountains (North Carolina). The Black Mountains are the highest in the Eastern United States, and culminate in Mount Mitchell (North Carolina) at 6,684 feet (2,037 m). It is the highest point east of the Mississippi River. Although agriculture remains important, tourism has become the dominant industry in the mountains. Due to the higher altitude in the mountains, the climate often differs starkly from the rest of the state. Winters in western North Carolina typically feature significant snowfall and subfreezing temperatures more akin to a northern state than a southern one.

North Carolina has 17 major river basins; five of the state's river basins - the Hiwassee, Little Tennessee, French Broad, Watauga and New - are part of the Mississippi River Basin, which drains to the Gulf of Mexico. All the others flow to the Atlantic Ocean. Of the 17 basins, 11 originate within the state of North Carolina, but only four are contained entirely within the state's borders - the Cape Fear, Neuse, White Oak and Tar-Pamlico.

Climate The three geographical divisions of North Carolina are useful when discussing the climate of the state.

The coastal plain is influenced by the Atlantic Ocean, which keeps temperatures mild in the winter and moderate in the summer. Daytime high temperatures on the coast average less than 89 °F (31.6 °C) during the summer. In the winter, the coast has the mildest temperatures in the state, with daytime temperatures rarely dropping below 40 °F (4.4 °C). The coastal plain usually receives only one inch (2.5 cm) of snow and/or ice annually, and in some years there may be no snow or ice at all. The Atlantic Ocean has less influence on the Piedmont region, and as a result the Piedmont has hotter summers and colder winters than the coast. Daytime highs in the Piedmont usually average over 90 °F (32.2 °C) in the summer. While it is not common for temperatures to reach over 100 °F (37.8 °C) in North Carolina, when it happens, the highest temperatures are to be found in the lower areas of the Piedmont, especially around the city of Fayetteville, North Carolina.In the winter, the Piedmont is much less mild than the coast, with daytime temperatures that usually reach in the mid to upper 50's, while low to mid 60's are common winter highs around the coast. The region averages anywhere from 3-5 inches of snowfall annually in the Charlotte area to 6-8 inches in the Raleigh-Durham area. The Piedmont is especially notorious for sleet and freezing rain, which can be heavy enough in some storms to snarl traffic and collapse trees and power lines. Annual precipitation and humidity is lower in the Piedmont than either the mountains or the coast, but even at its lowest, the precipitation is a generous 40 in (102 cm) per year. The Appalachian Mountains are the coolest area of the state, with daytime temperatures averaging in the 40's for highs in the winter and often falling into the teens (−9 °C) or lower in winter nights, and relatively cool summers rarely rising above 80 °F (26.7 °C). Snowfall in the mountains is usually 14–20 in (36–51 cm) per year, but is often greater in the higher elevations. For example, during the Blizzard of 1993 over 50 inches of snow fell on Mount Mitchell.

Severe weather is not a rare event in North Carolina. On average, the state receives a direct hit from a hurricane once a decade, and a tropical storm every 3 or 4 years, although in some years several hurricanes or tropical storms can either directly hit the state, or brush across the coastal areas. Only Florida and Louisiana are hit by hurricanes more often. On average, North Carolina has 50 days of thunderstorm activity per year, with some storms becoming severe enough to produce hail and damaging winds. Although many people believe that hurricanes only menace coastal areas, the rare hurricane which moves inland quickly enough can cause severe damage far inland. In 1989 Hurricane Hugo caused heavy damage in Charlotte and even as far inland as the Blue Ridge Mountains in the northwestern part of the state. North Carolina averages less than 20 tornadoes per year, and many of these are produced by hurricanes or tropical storms along the coastal plain. Nonetheless, tornadoes from thunderstorms are a risk, especially in the Piedmont region of central North Carolina.

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History Native Americans and The Lost Colony and his sonNorth Carolina was originally inhabited by many different native peoples, including the Cherokee, Tuscarora (tribe), Cheraw (tribe), Pamlico, Meherrin, Coree, Machapunga, Cape Fear Indians, Waxhaws, Saponi, Tutelo, Waccamaw Siouan, Lumbee, Coharie, and Catawba (tribe). North Carolina was the second American territory the United Kingdom 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 people child to be born in North America, was born in North Carolina. Dare County, NC is named for her.

Colonial Period and Revolutionary War The first permanent European settlers of North Carolina were British people colonists who migrated 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.Fenn and Wood, Natives and Newcomers, pp. 24-25 By 1663, this northeastern area of the Province of Carolina, known as the Albemarle Settlements, was experiencing full-scale British settlement.Powell, North Carolina Through Four Centuries, p. 105 During the same period, the English monarch Charles II of England gave the province to the Lords Proprietors, a group of noblemen who had helped restore Charles to the throne in 1660. The new province of "Carolina" was named in honor and memory of King Charles I of England (Latin: Carolus). In 1712, North Carolina became a separate colony and with the exception of the John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville holdings, it became a royal colony seventeen years later.Lefler and Newsome, (1973) There was some difference in the settlement patterns of eastern and western North Carolina, which would affect the political, economic, and social life of the state from the eighteenth until the twentieth century. Eastern North Carolina was settled largely by immigrants from England and the Highland Scots. Western North Carolina was settled largely by Scots-Irish and Germans Protestants, the so-called "cohee". During the Revolutionary War the English and Highland Scots of eastern North Carolina tended to remain loyal to the British Crown, while the Scots-Irish and German settlers of western North Carolina tended to favor American independence from 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, through the Halifax Resolves passed by the North Carolina Provincial Congress. The dates of both of these independence-related events are memorialized on the Flag of North Carolina and Seal of North Carolina. North Carolina often witnessed fierce guerilla warfare between bands of pro-independence and pro-British colonists throughout the Revolutionary War. A major American victory in the war took place at King's Pinnacle along the North Carolina-South Carolina border. On October 7, 1780 a force of 1000 mountain men from western North Carolina (including what is today the State of Tennessee) overwhelmed a force of some 1000 British troops led by Major Patrick Ferguson. Most of the British soldiers in this battle were Carolinians who had remained loyal to the British Crown (they were called "Tories"). The American victory at Kings Mountain gave the advantage to colonists who favored American independence over the Tory colonists, and prevented the British Army from recruiting new soldiers from the Tories. The road to Yorktown, Virginia and America's independence from England led through North Carolina. As the British Army moved north from victories in Charleston, South Carolina and Camden, South Carolina, South Carolina, the Southern Division of the Continental Army and local militia prepared to meet them. Following General Daniel Morgan's victory over the British Cavalry Commander Banastre Tarleton at the Battle of Cowpens on January 17, 1781, southern commander Nathanael Greene led British Lord Charles Cornwallis across the heartland of North Carolina, and away from Cornwallis's base of supply in Charleston, South Carolina. This campaign is known as "The Race to the Dan" or "The Race for the River."Lefler and Newsome, (1973)

Generals Greene and Cornwallis finally met at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in present-day Greensboro, North Carolina on March 15, 1781. Although the Kingdom of Great Britain troops held the field at the end of the battle, their casualties at the hands of the numerically superior American Army were crippling. Following this "Pyhrric victory", Cornwallis chose to move to the Virginia coastline to get reinforcements, and to allow the British Navy to protect his battered army. This decision would result in Cornwallis's eventual defeat at Yorktown, Virginia later in 1781, a victory which guaranteed American independence.

Antebellum Period On November 21, 1789, North Carolina became the twelfth state to ratify the Constitution. In 1840, it completed the North Carolina State Capitol building in Raleigh, North Carolina, still standing today. Unlike many other Southern states, North Carolina never developed a dominant slaveholding aristocracy, and middle-class yeomen tended to control the state government. Most of North Carolina's slaveowners and large plantations were located in the eastern part of the state; western North Carolinians tended to be non-slaveowning subsistence farmers. In mid-century, the state's rural and commercial areas were connected by the construction of a 129–mile (208 km) wooden plank road, known as a "farmer' railroad," from Fayetteville, North Carolina in the east to Bethania, North Carolina (northwest of Winston-Salem, North Carolina).Lefler and Newsome, (1973) 0n October 25, 1836 construction began on the Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad NC Business History to connect the port city of Wilmington, North Carolina with the state capital of Raleigh, North Carolina. In 1849 the North Carolina Railroad was created by act of the legislature to extend that railroad west to Greensboro, North Carolina, High Point, North Carolina, and Charlotte, North Carolina. During the Civil War the Wilmington-to-Raleigh stretch of the railroad would be vital to the Confederate war effort; supplies shipped into Wilmington would be moved by rail through Raleigh to the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. During the antebellum period North Carolina was an overwhelmingly rural state, even by Southern standards. In 1860 only one North Carolina town, the port city of Wilmington, North Carolina, had a population of more than 10,000. Raleigh, North Carolina, the state capital, had barely more than 5,000 residents.

Civil War In 1860, North Carolina was a slave state with a relatively small slave population (compared to other Southern states). However, it refused to join the Confederate States of America until President Abraham Lincoln called on it to invade its sister-state, South Carolina. The state was the site of few battles, but it provided at least 125,000 troops to the Confederacy— far more than any other 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 Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Richmond, Virginia. Even after secession, a very small number of North Carolinians refused to support the Confederacy; this was particularly true of non-slave-owning farmers in the state's mountains and western Piedmont region, who had migrated from the North. Some of these farmers remained neutral during the American Civil War, while a small minority covertly supported the Union (American Civil War) cause during the conflict. Even so, Confederate troops from all parts of North Carolina served in virtually all the major battles of the Army of Northern Virginia, the Confederacy's most famous army. The largest battle fought in North Carolina was at Battle of Bentonville, which was a futile attempt by Confederate General Joseph Johnston to slow Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's advance through the Carolinas in the spring of 1865.Lefler and Newsome, (1973) In April 1865 Johnston surrendered to Sherman at Bennett Place, in what is today Durham, North Carolina. This was the last major Confederate Army to surrender. North Carolina's port city of Wilmington, North Carolina was the last Confederate port to fall to the Union, it fell in the spring of 1865 after the nearby Second Battle of Fort Fisher.

The first Confederate soldier to be killed in the Civil War was Private Henry Wyatt, a North Carolinian. He was killed in the Battle of Big Bethel in June 1861. At the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, the 26th North Carolina Regiment participated in Pickett's Charge and advanced the farthest into the Northern lines of any Confederate regiment. At Appomattox Court House in Virginia in April 1865, the 75th North Carolina Regiment, a cavalry unit, fired the last shots of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the Civil War. For many years, North Carolinians proudly boasted that they had been "First at Bethel, Farthest at Gettysburg, and Last at Appomattox."

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



According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2006, North Carolina has an estimated population of 8,856,505, which is an increase of 184,046, or 2.1%, from the prior year and an increase of 810,014, or 10.0%, 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 293,761 people (that is 749,959 births minus 456,198 deaths) and an increase due to net migration of 527,991 people into the state. Immigration to the United States from outside the United States resulted in a net increase of 180,986 people, and migration within the country produced a net increase of 347,005 people. Between 2005 and 2006, North Carolina passed New Jersey to become the 10th most populous state. Table 1: Estimates of Population Change for the United States and States, and for Puerto Rico and State Rankings: July 1, 2005 to July 1, 2006. United States Census Bureau. December 22, 2006. Last accessed December 22, 2006.

North Carolina has historically been a rural state, with most of the population living on farms and in small towns. However, over the last 30 years the state has undergone rapid urbanization, and today the residents of North Carolina live primarily in urban and suburban areas, as is the case in most of the United States. In particular, the cities of Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina have become major urban centers, with large, diverse, mainly affluent and rapidly-growing populations. Most of this growth in Multiculturalism has been fueled by immigrants from Latin America, India, and Southeast Asia.

The center of population of North Carolina is located in Randolph County, North Carolina, in the town of Seagrove, North Carolina.

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

Ancestry The largest Maps of American ancestries in North Carolina are:

Most populated counties {| class="wikitable"! County !! Seat !! 2010 Projection|-| Mecklenburg County, North Carolina || Charlotte, NC || 925,084|-| Wake County, North Carolina || Raleigh, North Carolina || 900,072|-| Guilford County, North Carolina || Greensboro, North Carolina || 474,605|-| Forsyth County, North Carolina || Winston-Salem, North Carolina || 350,784|-| Cumberland County, North Carolina || Fayetteville, North Carolina || 311,777|-| Durham County, North Carolina || Durham, North Carolina || 262,256|-| Buncombe County, North Carolina || Asheville, North Carolina || 234,697|-| Gaston County, North Carolina || Gastonia, North Carolina || 205,489|-| Union County, North Carolina || Monroe, North Carolina || 203,527|-| New Hanover County, North Carolina || Wilmington, North Carolina || 200,401|}


African Americans African Americans make up a quarter of North Carolina's population and the state experienced a growth of middle-class blacks since the 1970s. 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 farmer" farmers were non-slave-holding, private land owners of tracts of approximately 500 acres (2 km²) or less. African-American communities number by the hundreds in rural counties in the south-central and northeast, and in predominantly black neighborhoods in the cities: Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham, Greensboro, Fayetteville, Wilmington and Winston-Salem. By contrast, relatively few blacks live in the state's mountains and rural areas of the western Piedmont, and in some mountain counties the black population has historically numbered in the few dozens at most.North Carolina harbored the famous Greensboro Four of 1960, an important event to the American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968).

European Americans North Carolinians of Scots-Irish American, Scottish American and English American ancestry are concentrated in the western mountains, coastal areas, and rural areas of the central Piedmont. In the Winston-Salem, NC area, there is a substantial population of German American ancestry from the migration of members of the Moravian Church during the mid-18th century. The coastal region attracted a history of European immigration, like Swiss-Germans who settled New Bern, North Carolina in the late 18th century.

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

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



Hispanics/Latinos Since 1990 the state has seen a boom in the number of Hispanics in the United States/Latinos. Once chiefly employed as migrant labor, the increase in Hispanics since 1990 can be attributed in part to the ease of access to low skilled jobs that are the first step on the economic ladder. As a result growing numbers of Hispanics are settling in the state, mainly from Mexico, Central America, and the Dominican Republic. Hispanic neighborhoods are found in the cities and there are sizable populations of Cuban Americans and Puerto Ricans in the United States in North Carolina. In 2005, the Pew Hispanic Center estimated that 300,000 — roughly 65 percent of North Carolina’s Latino population — are illegal immigrants, based on the Census Bureau’s population estimates. The population has grown from 76,726 in 1990 to 517,617 in 2005, an average increase of 13.5% per year.

Asian Americans The state has one of the most rapid growing Asian American, specifically Indian American and Vietnamese American, populations in the country; the populations nearly quintupled and tripled, respectively, between 1990 and 2002. The earliest record of Asian immigration in North Carolina goes back to the mid 1800s when the first Chinese Americans were hired as agricultural workers. The famous Chinese-Malay American Siamese twins - Eng and Chang Bunker - settled in Wilkesboro, North Carolina in 1839. Japanese Americans, Filipino Americans, and Koreans arrived in the early and mid 20th century. Recent estimates suggest that the state's Asian American population has increased significantly since 2000. The Hmong people population in North Carolina has grown by 12,000 since the 1980s.See a report on immigration by The Center for New North Carolinians of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, entitled Ethnic Groups in North Carolina. Retrieved July 29, 2007.

Religion North Carolina, like other Southern United States states, has traditionally been overwhelmingly Protestant, with the largest Protestant denomination being the Southern Baptists. However, the rapid influx of Northern United States and immigrants from Latin America is steadily increasing the number of Roman Catholics and Judaism in the state, and the numerical dominance of the Baptist Church is beginning to decline. This is especially evident in the urban areas of the state, where the population is more culturally diverse and the bulk of the growth has occurred. However, in many rural counties the Southern Baptists remain the dominant Christian church. The second-largest Protestant church in North Carolina are the Methodists, who are strong in the upper Piedmont, and especially in populous Guilford County. There are also substantial numbers of Quakers in Guilford County, and northeastern North Carolina. The Presbyterians have historically had a strong presence in Charlotte, the state's largest city. The current religious affiliations of the people of North Carolina are shown below:



Economy According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the state's 2004 total gross state product was $336 billion. Its 2005 per capita personal income was $31,029, 36th in the nation. North Carolina's agricultural outputs include poultry and Egg (food), tobacco, Hog (swine), milk, Nursery (horticulture) stock, cattle, sweet potatoes, and soybeans. However, North Carolina is the state most affected by offshoring and industrial growth in countries like China; one in five North Carolina manufacturing jobs has been lost to overseas competition.Fishman, China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World, p. 179 There has been a distinct difference in the economic growth of North Carolina's urban areas and its rural, small-town areas. While large cities such as Charlotte, North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina, Cary, North Carolina, and others have experienced rapid population and economic growth over the last thirty years, many of the state's small towns have suffered from job and population loss. Most of North Carolina's small towns historically developed around textile and furniture factories; as these factories have closed and moved to low-wage markets in Asia and Latin America the small towns that depended upon them have suffered.

Agriculture and manufacturing Over the past century, North Carolina has grown to become a national leader in agriculture, Banking, and manufacturing. The state's industrial output—mainly textiles, Chemical industry, electrical equipment, paper and Wood pulp—ranked eighth in the nation in the early 1990s. The textile industry, which was once a mainstay of the state's economy, has been steadily losing jobs to producers in Latin America and Asia for the past 25 years, though the state remains the largest textile employer in the United States.http://www.soc.duke.edu/NC_GlobalEconomy/textiles/overview.php Over the past few years, another important Carolina industry, furniture production, has also been hard-hit by jobs moving to Asia (especially China). Tobacco, one of North Carolina's earliest sources of revenue, remains vital to the local economy, although concerns about whether the federal government will continue to support subsidies for tobacco farmers has led some growers to switch to other crops like wine or leave farming altogether. North Carolina is the leading producer of tobacco in the country.

Finance, Technology and Research growing skylineCharlotte, North Carolina, North Carolina's largest city, continues to experience rapid growth, in large part due to the banking & finance industry. Charlotte is now the second largest banking center in the United States (after New York City), and is home to Bank of America and Wachovia. The Charlotte metropolitan area is also home to 5 other Fortune 500 companies.

The information technology and biotechnology industries have been steadily on the rise since the creation of the Research Triangle Park (RTP) in the 1950s. Located between Raleigh, North Carolina and Durham, North Carolina (mostly in Durham County), its proximity to local research universities has no doubt helped to fuel growth. Meanwhile, beginning in the 1980s,

The North Carolina Research Campus underway in Kannapolis, North Carolina (approx. 30 miles northeast of Charlotte) promises to enrich and bolster the Charlotte area in the same way that RTP changed the Raleigh-Durham region. Encompassing 5.8 million square feet, the complex is a collaborative project involving Duke University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and N.C. State University, along with private and corporate investors and developers. The facility incorporates corporate, academic, commercial and residential space, oriented toward research and development (R&D) and biotechnology. Similarly, in downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the Piedmont Triad Research Park is undergoing an expansion. Approximately thirty miles to the east of Winston Salem's research park, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and North Carolina A&T State University have joined forces to create the Gateway University Research Park, a technology-based research entity which will focus its efforts on areas such as nanotechnology, biotechnology & biochemistry, environmental sciences, and genetics among other science-based disciplines.

Film and the arts Film studios are located in Shelby, North Carolina, Raleigh, Durham, Charlotte, Asheville, North Carolina, and Wilmington, North Carolina. Some of the best-known films and television shows filmed in the state include: All the Real Girls, Being There, Blue Velvet, Bull Durham, The Color Purple (film), Cabin Fever (film), Cape Fear (1991 film), The Crow (film), Dawson's Creek, Dirty Dancing, Evil Dead 2, The Fugitive (1993 film), The Green Mile (film), Hannibal (film), The Last of the Mohicans (1992 film), Nell, One Tree Hill (TV series), Patch Adams (film), Shallow Hal, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, and 28 Days (film). The television show most associated with North Carolina is The Andy Griffith Show, which aired on CBS-TV from 1960 to 1968. The series is set in the fictional small town of Mayberry, North Carolina, and was based on the real-life town of Mount Airy, North Carolina, although it was filmed in California. Mount Airy is the hometown of actor Andy Griffith. The show is still popular in reruns and is frequently shown in Broadcast syndication around the nation. North Carolina is also home to some of the Southeast's biggest film festivals, including the RiverRun International Film Festival in Winston-Salem and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, North Carolina.

Tax revenue North Carolina personal income tax is slightly progressive tax, with four incremental brackets ranging from 6.0% to 8.25%. The state sales tax is 4.25%. Most taxable sales or purchases are subject to the state tax as well as the 2.5% local tax rate levied by all counties, for a combined 6.75%. Mecklenburg County has an additional 0.5% local tax for public transportation, bringing sales taxes there to a total 7.25%. The total local rate of tax in Dare County is 3.5%, producing a combined state and local rate there of 7.75%.http://www.dornc.com/taxes/sales/dare_county_rate.html In addition, there is a 29.9¢ tax per gallon of Gasoline, a 30¢ tax per pack of cigarettes, a

 

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