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I mean positives and cool things. But if anyone wants to list not so good things their state is known for they can (not someone else's though).
North Carolina is known for our universities, college basketball and football, nascar, growing the 2nd largest amount of christmas trees, Biltmore...
and filming. i didn't even learn until last year (from here) that we are either 2nd in movie production only behind california, or 3rd behind new york.
i'll think of some other stuff when it comes to me
I mean positives and cool things. But if anyone wants to list not so good things their state is known for they can (not someone else's though).
North Carolina is known for our universities, college basketball and football, nascar, growing the 2nd largest amount of christmas trees, Biltmore...
and filming. i didn't even learn until last year (from here) that we are either 2nd in movie production only behind california, or 3rd behind new york.
i'll think of some other stuff when it comes to me
John Smith, Pocahontas, John Rolfe
Shenandoah Valley/River
Appalachia
Birthplace of Country music(Bristol VA/TN)
Fox Hunting (since the 1600's first established club in 1840 still in existence today)
The Natural Bridge
The White House of Confederacy
Civil War battles
Robert E Lee
Give me Liberty or Give me Death speech
oldest continuously operating marketplace in the United States (Market Square Alexandria)
Peanuts (Suffolk)
Traffic (Northern VA/Richmond/Hampton roads)
Mill Mountain star (Roanoke)
Birthplace of eight presidents
UVA
Tobacco
Colonial Williamsburg
Cotton (only in selected southern counties)
Giant statue of Neptune (Virginia Beach)
NO SWEARING SIGNS (Virginia Beach)
- Quakers
- Amish
- The Liberty Bell
- The Declaration of Independence
- James Buchanan
- The world's first oil well
- Anthracite coal
- Steel
- Professional football
- The banana split
- The world's first commercially-licensed radio station
- North America's first superhighway
- American Bandstand
- Joe Paterno
- The "Big Mac"
- Cheesesteaks
- Hurricane Agnes
- Daryl Hall and John Oates
- Mumia Abu-Jamal
- R. Budd Dwyer
- Boyz II Men
- Comcast
- American Eagle Outfitters
I'm sure I could list plenty others if I wasn't so tired.
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