Can some DU historian please tell

[louis c]

me if there has ever been a President or Vice-President from North Carolina?

Seems to me that if there hasn't been one, the pride thing should really account for something there.

[HFishbine]

1. Polk

was born in NC, but elected after serving as governor of Tennessee.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jp11.html

(Edwards was born in SC)

[WoodrowFan]

2. Nope

Wilson lived in Wilmington for a few years while a teenager, but that's as close as you're going to get. (I forgot Polk, sorry)

JOHN C. CALHOUN, Vice President as Democratic-Republican under John Quincy Adams, 1825-29 and as Democrat under Andrew Jackson, 1829-32 was from SOUTH Carolina.

[Don_G]

3. What Pride?

Most folks don't know that Jefferson Davis himself was Indiana born and bred just north of Louisville.

Nor the fact that Robert E Lee lost his farm to the Yankees after an asshole "Northern" General decided to bury the dead on his farm, therby creating Arlington National Cemetary?

You want to get me started on the source of the term "Hookers?"

[Blue Wally]

5. Lot of stories

Area in Holland popular with sailors that had a lot of bordelloes. Name treanslated as "the hook".

Also about fighting Joe hooker which is the origin you are referring to.

[kentuck]

6. I think Jeff Davis was born in KY ....as was Lincoln....

There is a monument to him that resembles a smaller Washington monument in a small town not too far from Hodgenville, KY, where Abe Lincoln was born...

[Sporadicus]

8. Actually, it's Near Hopkinsville

in the west. It's an obelisk that resembles the Washington Monument.



http://www.state.ky.us/agencies/parks/jefdav2.htm

[DivinBreuvage]

9. Most folks don't know it because it's not true. Three strikes for you.

Jefferson Davis was born in Kentucky, not Indiana, about 100 miles from Lincoln.

The "Northern asshole" you refer to was the extremely competent Union Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs (a native of Augusta, Georgia, for your information). As the war dragged on Meigs become more and more embittered against his fellow Southerners, particularly after his son was killed fighting them. When asked to find an appropriate burial ground for Union dead, Meigs decided that the most fitting place was the front yard of the man who had done the most to perpetuate that war and kill those men. The words are spelled "thereby" and "cemetery" by the way.

Your story about the origin of the word "Hookers" is spurious too. Americans were using it that way 20 years before old "Fighting Joe" came on the scene.

[Blue Wally]

11. Two Jeff Davis existed

During the Civil War, there was also a Union Major General by the name of Jefferson Davis.

[jdsmith]

4. Actually there is some question about Jackson

North Carolina tries to claim him now and then. But as a South Carolinian I can tell you it's just those Tarheels' thieving ways.

[kentuck]

7. I think most of that country around Spartanburg and up in Rutherford NC

was considered just on the border of Cherokee country, so it is difficult to trace heritage from that area... My x-great grandfather moved to Ky from that area in 1828... :)

[Yupster]

10. Closest I could find was

William Graham, the Whig VP candidate who ran with Winfield Scott in 1852. They lost though.