North Carolina has over 60 official state symbols. These symbols include the state bird (cardinal), flower (dogwood), and tree (pine). The state also has official designations for a reptile ...

North Carolina has over 60 official state symbols. These symbols include the state bird (cardinal), flower (dogwood), and tree (pine). The state also has official designations for a reptile, fish, ...

On the 100th anniversary of the last shooting of a wild grizzly in the state, you’ve got to wonder why the bears we exterminated were made the symbol of the state. My research shows that a ...

But did you know that the state also has more than 60 other official symbols? Some of these symbols are more in line with what you might imagine as symbols of a state; an official color ...

Concrete efforts to change the state seal, motto and flag began in 2021. Critics say the symbols are racist: the sword above the Native American on the seal, they say, represents English colonists ...