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Originally Posted by Taltarzac
Why do they call people from North Carolina "tar heels"? Some of the Doggie Doo Run Run regulars were discussing this today and could not seem to come up with an answer that satisfied me. Looked it up via Google but it still seems up in the air as to really where the nickname "Tar Heel" comes from?
Seems all the schools I have actually taken classes at for more than a week (like BYU Law School where I was there about 10 days) are out of the running for the Big Dance. U Nevada-Reno; U of MN; Denver University; and the College of San Mateo if they even have a basketball team??
10 days at a school is not much of a connection. Found the baby rule at the BYU Law School unfair. The professors would not call on you if you had a baby in your lap. Made the law classes quite nosy. :joke: ;D Mormons and their family values.
No babies, dogs, allowed in the U of MN Law School classes where I later graduated (Class of 1989) though.
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ORIGIN OF THE TAR HEELS
http://www.outerbankschamber.com/rel...y/tarheels.cfm
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In Colonial days, North Carolina was a big producer of tar, pitch and turpentine.
During one of the fiercest conflicts of the Civil War, North Carolina troops felt they had been let down by a regiment carrying the colors of another state, and thus carried chips on their shoulders when they pulled back from the front after the battle.
"Any more tar down in the Old North State, boys?" members of the other regiments taunted the battle-weary North Carolinians.
"Not a bit. Jeff Davis bought it all up," retorted the Carolinians.
"How's that, what's he going to do with it?"
"He's gonna put it on your heels to make you stick better in the next fight," answered the soldiers from the land of tar, pitch and turpentine.
Gerneral Lee, hearing of the incident, remarked: "God Bless the Tar Heel Boys."
The nickname stuck.
Source ... Creecy's "Grandfather Tales of North Carolina"