> “Where the winds of Mid-Atlantic states softly blow/o’er the fields of Caroline/There stands ever cherished, N.C. State,/as thy honored shrine.” Fixed it. <
Sorry. That still won’t work. The word “shrine” has a religious connotation, and that might offend some atheist somewhere.
Better to scrap the whole thing and just go with: “Oh, North Carolina. You are a state. Oh, North Carolina.”
That “honored ” thingy won’t work either.
Too judgmental.
Nope that won't work for me. I'm a Southerner and I am deeply Offended at the word "North". What the North did to my ancestors was nothing short of genocide. No state should be allowed to have that word in their name.