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The nickname for North Carolina is the Tarheel State.
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North Carolina is known as the Tarheel state.
Tar Heel is a nickname of North Carolina and its inhabitants. As to an animal, have you used the correct spelling?
Collectively, they are named North Carolinians, but individually, they are named whatever they were named at birth.The nickname for North Carolinians is "The Tarheels". Someone from North Carolina might say to someone from another state, "I'm a Tarheel", meaning they live in N.C.
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It's commonly called,"The old north state" and "The Tarheel state".
The North Carolina Tarheels have played the USC Trojans. They have also played many others.
Yes. NC stands for North Carolina; A state on the East Coast of the United states sharing borders with South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Some Random facts about NC: The North Carolina nickname is "The old North State" or "The Tarheel State", Our Reptile is the "Eastern Box Turtle", Our Beverage is Milk, and our Mammal is the Gray Squirrel.
North Carolina nickname means it has alot of tar.