Tar Heel State
Americannoun
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Before its passage, judges in the Tar Heel State had only found racial discrimination in jury selection one time.
From Slate • Feb. 13, 2025
Open carry of firearms is legal in the Tar Heel State without a permit, but a person must be 18 with no felony convictions to do so.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2024
Some states, including South Carolina, have been more successful recently at buying shells than North Carolina because the Tar Heel State has a limit on how much it can spend.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 29, 2022
Two fishermen recently hooked record-breaking catfish during separate angling adventures in the Tar Heel State this month.
From Fox News • Jul. 28, 2020
It tells of the strange and mysterious adventures that happened to the Patrol in their trip through the "mountains of the sky" in the Moonshiners' Paradise of the old Tar Heel State, North Carolina.
From The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades by Davis, J. Watson
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