Tar Heel

Apparently the tar-heel state has failed to learn about the use of flow devices and beaver deceivers to cheaply control flooding. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As it turns out, Angela is much prettier and more elegant than I'd imagined and has a gorgeous and genteel tar-heel accent -- characteristics that completely belie the quirky and somewhat warped sense of humor I knew she possessed. ❋ Unknown (2005)

"Point," have with tar-heel obstinacy and tar-heel appropriateness changed it into "Piney." ❋ John Hill (1884)

The growth of trees and brushwood has shut out the "prospect" and the irreverent successors of Davie, not being able to see the "Point," have with tar-heel obstinacy and tar-heel appropriateness changed it into "Piney." ❋ Kemp Plummer (1883)

I don't know whether Winder ever took any notice of this most admirable exhibition of inefficiency on the part of the gallant defender of the homes of Charlotte, but I thought that if I were in his place, I would take some pains to discipline this particular tar-heel into some adequate appreciation of the necessity for obeying orders, no matter who was hurt. ❋ Unknown (1876)

The tar-heel state saw foreclosure filings rise almost 11 percent last month. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These singularities had already been exposed by Bayard Rush Hall in The New Purchase (1855), and there was beginning to grow up a modest literature reporting “that curious poor-whitey race which is called ‘tar-heel’ in the northern Carolina, ‘sand-hiller’ in the southern, ‘corn-cracker’ in Kentucky, ‘Yahoo’ in Mississippi, and in California ‘Pike’ … the Hoosiers of the dark regions of Indiana and the Egyptians of southern Illinois”—a race, still not utterly extinct, which later observers think of as the “contemporary ancestors” of those modern Americans who have outgrown eighteenth-century conditions as the “poor whites” have not. ❋ Unknown (1921)

But the trouble is with me that when I git to arguin 'with a man I'm apt to forgit that I ain't on shipboard and talkin' to a tar-heel. " ❋ Holman Day (1900)