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|date=November 21, 1789 (12th)
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'''North Carolina''', is a [[swing state]] in the southeastern region of the [[United States]]. On [[November]] 21st, 1789, it became the twelfth state to enter into the union. North Carolina was part of the [[Confederate States of America]], 1861-651861–65. The capital of North Carolina is [[Raleigh]] and its largest city is [[Charlotte]]. North Carolina is the location of the [[Republican National Convention]] in 2020, despite how its current governor is Roy Cooper, a [[Democrat]].
North Carolina is the birthplace of two American presidents, [[James Polk]] and [[Andrew Johnson]], both of whom left young. The most prominent recent [[conservative]] leader was Senator [[Jesse Helms]]. The state's two current [[Moderate Republican|Moderate]] [[Republican Party|Republican]] senators, [[Richard Burr]] and [[Thom Tillis]], are fully unlike Helms in style and philosophy of government.
The state Constitution of North Carolina, like all of the other 50 states, acknowledges God or our Creator or the ''Sovereign Ruler of the Universe''. It says:
:''We, the people of the State of North Carolina, grateful to Almighty God, the Sovereign Ruler of Nations, for the preservation of the American Union and the existence of our civil, political and religious liberties, and acknowledging our dependence upon Him for the continuance of those blessings to us and our posterity, do, for the more certain security thereof and for the better government of this State, ordain and establish this Constitution.''
==Seal==
The Seal of the state of North Carolina contains two calendar dates: The first is May 20, 1775, which refers to the date of the [[Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence]] and the other date April 12, 1776 refers to the Halifax Resolves.
==Politics==
*Sen. [[Thom Tillis]] (R)
*Sen. [[Richard Burr]] (R)
*Rep. [[G. K. Butterfield]] [D, NC-01NC–01]*Rep. [[George HoldingDeborah Ross]] [RD, NC-02NC–02]*Rep. [[Walter B. Jones, Jr.Greg Murphy]] [R, NCN-03]*Rep. [[David Price]] [D, NC-04NC–04]*Rep. [[Virginia Foxx]] [R, NC-05NC–05]*Rep. [[Mark WalkerKathy Manning]] [RD, NC-06NC–06]*Rep. [[David Rouzer]] [R, NC-07NC–07]*Rep. [[Richard Hudson]] [R, NC-08NC–08]*(vacant) Rep. [NC-09[Dan Bishop]] [NC–09]*Rep. [[Patrick McHenry]] [R, NC-10NC–10]*Rep. [[Mark MeadowsMadison Cawthorn]] [R, NC-11NC–11]*Rep. [[Alma Adams]] [D, NC-12NC–12]*Rep. [[Ted Budd]] [R, NC-13NC–13]
===Statewide===
*Governor [[Roy Cooper ]] (D)*Lt. Governor [[Dan ForestMark Robinson]] (R)
*Attorney General [[Josh Stein]] (D)
*Secretary of State [[Elaine Marshall]] (D)
* Lefler, Hugh Talmage, and Albert Ray Newsome, ''North Carolina: The History of a Southern State'' University of North Carolina Press (1954, 1963, 1973), standard textbook
* Luebke, Paul. ''Tar Heel Politics: Myths and Realities'' (University of North Carolina Press, 1990).
* Powell William S. ''Dictionary of North Carolina Biography.'' Vol. 1, A-C; vol. 2, D-G; vol. 3, H-K. UNC Press, 1979-881979–88.
* Powell, William S. ''Encyclopedia of North Carolina.'' University of North Carolina Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0807830710.
* Powell, William S. ''North Carolina Fiction, 1734-1957: An Annotated Bibliography'' UNC Press 1958
====Special topics====
* Bishir, Catherine. ''North Carolina Architecture.'' Chapel Hill: UNC, 1990.
* North Carolina China Council [a regional affiliate of the China Council of the Asia Society.] ''North Carolina's "China Connection," 1840-1949: A Record.'' N.P.: North Carolina China Council, 1981. No ISBN. Catalog of a photographic exhibit shown at the North Carolina Museum of History and elsewhere, 1980-19811980–1981.
====Pre 1920====
* Eric Anderson, ''Race and Politics in North Carolina, 1872-1901'' (Louisiana State University Press, 1981).
* Beatty Bess. "Lowells of the South: Northern Influence on the Nineteenth-Century North Carolina Textile Industry, 1830-1890". ''Journal of Southern History'' 53 (Feb 1987): 37-6237–62. online at JSTOR
* Billings Dwight. ''Planters and the Making of a "New South": Class, Politics, and Development in North Carolina, 1865-1900.'' UNC Press, 1979.
* Bolton; Charles C. ''Poor Whites of the Antebellum South: Tenants and Laborers in Central North Carolina and Northeast Mississippi'' Duke University Press, 1994 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=3589001 online edition]
* Clayton Thomas H. ''Close to the Land. The Way We Lived in North Carolina, 1820-1870.'' UNC Press, 1983.
* A. Roger Ekirch, ''"Poor Carolina": Politics and Society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729-1776'' (University of North Carolina Press, 1981)
* Escott Paul D., and Jeffrey J. Crow. "The Social Order and Violent Disorder: An Analysis of North Carolina in the Revolution and the Civil War". ''Journal of Southern History'' 52 (August 1986): 373-402373–402. in JSTOR
* Escott; Paul D. ''Many Excellent People: Power and Privilege in North Carolina, 1850-1900'' [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=59237933 University of North Carolina Press, (1985) online]
* Fenn, Elizabeth A. and Peter H. Wood. ''Natives and Newcomers: The Way We Lived in North Carolina Before 1770'' University of North Carolina Press 1983
* Gilpatrick; Delbert Harold. ''Jeffersonian Democracy in North Carolina, 1789-1816'' Columbia University Press. (1931) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=10537433 online edition]
* Gilmore; Glenda Elizabeth. ''Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920'' U of North Carolina Press, 1996 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=94820630 online edition]
* Griffin Richard W. "Reconstruction of the North Carolina Textile Industry, 1865-1885". ''North Carolina Historical Review'' 41 (January 1964): 34-5334–53. * Harris, William C. "William Woods Holden: in Search of Vindication." ''North Carolina Historical Review'' 1982 59(4): 354-372354–372. ISSN 0029-2494 Governor during Reconstruction
* Harris, William C. ''William Woods Holden, Firebrand of North Carolina Politics.'' Louisiana State U. Press, 1987. 332 pp.
* Johnson, Charles A. "The Camp Meeting in Ante-Bellum North Carolina". ''North Carolina Historical Review'' 10 (April 1933): 95-110.
* Kruman Marc W. ''Parties and Politics in North Carolina, 1836-1865.'' Louisiana State University Press, 1983.
* Leloudis, James L. ''Schooling the New South: Pedagogy, Self, and Society in North Carolina, 1880-1920'' University of North Carolina Press, 1996 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=94841854 online edition]
* McDonald Forrest, and Grady McWhiney. "The South from Self-Sufficiency to Peonage: An Interpretation". ''American Historical Review'' 85 (December 1980): 1095-11181095–1118. in JSTOR* McDonald Forrest, and Grady McWhiney. "The Antebellum Southern Herdsmen: A Reinterpretation". ''Journal of Southern History'' 41 (May 1975): 147-66147–66. in JSTOR
* Morrill, James R. ''The Practice and Politics of Fiat Finance: North Carolina in the Confederation, 1783-1789. UNC Press, 1969 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=14682320 online edition]
* Mabel Newcomer; ''Economic and Social History of Chowan County, North Carolina, 1880-1915'' Columbia UP, 1917 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=2990988 online edition]
* Nathans Sydney. ''The Quest for Progress: The Way We Lived in North Carolina, 1870-19201870–1920.'' UNC Press, 1983.
* O'Brien Gail Williams. ''The Legal Fraternity and the Making of a New South Community, 1848-1882.'' U. of Georgia Press, 1986.
* Opper Peter Kent. "North Carolina Quakers: Reluctant Slaveholders". ''North Carolina Historical Review'' 52 (January 1975): 37-5837–58.
* Perdue Theda. ''Native Carolinians: The Indians of North Carolina.'' Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 1985.
* Ramsey Robert W. ''Carolina Cradle. Settlement of the Northwest Carolina Frontier, 1747-1762.'' UNC Press, 1964.
* Puryear, Elmer L. ''Democratic Party Dissension in North Carolina, 1928-1936'' (University of North Carolina Press, 1962).
* Seymour, Robert E. ''"Whites Only".'' Valley Forge, Pa.: Judson, 1991. An account of the Civil Rights movement in North Carolina, and churches' involvement in it (on both sides) in particular, by a white Baptist pastor who was a supporter of the movement. ISBN 0-8170-1178-1.
* Taylor, Elizabeth A. "The Women's Suffrage Movement in North Carolina", ''North Carolina Historical Review'', (January 1961): 45-6245–62, and ibid. (April 1961): 173-89173–89;
* Tilley Nannie May. ''The Bright Tobacco Industry, 1860-1929.'' UNC 1948.
* Tilley Nannie May. ''The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.'' UNC Press, 1985.
* Luther H. Hodges; ''Businessman in the Statehouse: Six Years as Governor of North Carolina'' UNC Press 1962 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=94828252 online edition]
* [http://docsouth.unc.edu/holden/holden.html ''Memoirs of W. W. Holden'' (1911)] complete text
* Holden, William Woods. ''The Papers of William Woods Holden. Vol. 1: 1841-18681841–1868.'' Horace Raper and Thornton W. Mitchell, ed. Raleigh, Division of Archives and History, Dept. of Cultural Resources, 2000. 457 pp.
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