Are you that backward? So you are saying if it wasn't for yankees NC would still be backward? Oh please. I take it you've never been anywhere? Yee-Haw praise the yankees. They saved us. You are crazy. There are smart,well educated Southerners and that didn't have anything to do with the north. Maybe we could get more gang bangers down here to enlighten our children. I'm sure NY etc would supply the bus. Every state has good and bad!