North Carolina is a state located in the Southeastern United States along its Atlantic Seaboard. It was one of the original Thirteen Colonies, originally known as Carolina, and the home of the first English colony in the Americas. On May 20, 1861, it became the last of the Confederate states to secede from the Union, and was readmitted on July 4, 1868. It was also the location of the first successful powered heavier-than-air flight by the Wright brothers at Kill Devil Hills near Kitty Hawk in 1903. Today, it is a fast-growing state with an increasingly diverse economy and population. As of July 1, 2006, the population estimate is 8,856,505 - a 10% increase since April 1, 2000.
The largest ancestry groups in North Carolina are:
African American (21.6%)
American (13.9%) (Mostly of UK and Irish descent)
English (9.5%)
German (9.5%)
Irish (7.4%)
Scots-Irish (3.2%)
Italian (2.3%)
Scots (2.2%)
North Carolina has one of the largest Native American populations in the United States.
North Carolina has the second largest Laotian American population in the country
Religion in North Carolina
Christian – 88%
Protestant – 77%
Baptist – 40%
Methodist – 10%
Presbyterian – 3%
Episcopalian – 3%
Other Protestant or general Protestant – 20-24%
Roman Catholic – 10%
Other Christian – 1% such as Mormon or Eastern Orthodox.
Non-Religious – 11% (atheists, agnostics, and others)
Other Religions – 1% (Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism)
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