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Tar Heel State

American  

noun

  1. North Carolina (used as a nickname).


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Instead, you’re heading off to the Tar Heel State to spend your days hunting... coyotes.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 27, 2026

North Carolina was second only to much, much larger California in the number of manufacturing jobs lost: According to one estimate, the Tar Heel State lost nearly half its jobs in that sector.

From Slate Oct. 10, 2024

But Tar Heel State veterans interviewed in the runup to the primary season’s biggest voting day varied in their politics, even if they agreed that their military service informed their opinions.

From Seattle Times Mar. 4, 2024

In places such as the western mountains or the southeastern Sandhills region of the Tar Heel State, as many as 1 in 5 adults are uninsured.

From Washington Post Mar. 7, 2023

Man has done more for France, it seems to me, than for the Tar Heel State, and the cities of Asheville and Paris are widely different.

From A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories by Edgar Wilson

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