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Also known as: Tar Heel State
Written by
Robert J. Norrell
Professor of History, University of Tennessee. Author of Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee and The House I Live In: Race in the American Century.
Robert J. Norrell,
David Grier Martin
Vice President for Public Affairs, University of North Carolina system, Chapel Hill.
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North Carolina, constituent state of the United States of America. One of the 13 original states, it lies on the Atlantic coast midway between New York and Florida and is bounded to the north by Virginia, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by South Carolina and Georgia, and to the west by Tennessee. The terrain of North Carolina is among the wettest in the country, with vast marshlands in the coastal tidewater area and numerous lakes in the Piedmont and Appalachian regions. These three physical regions account for much of the diversity in lifestyles and cultures ...(100 of 6124 words)

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