Free Republic

RALEIGH – North Carolina is a state of many firsts. We were first in freedom – except, of course, for the shameful persistence of chattel slavery for nearly a century after independence. We were the first to create a state university – thus ensuring that North Carolina’s wealthy elite could get a subsidized college education at a time when the rest of the country’s wealthy elite were forced to pay for their own children’s education. We were first in flight – well, actually, no we weren’t but I’m trying to develop a theme here. More recently, North Carolina has been...