North Carolina on Vice

My State Wants to Establish an Official Religion

The United States Constitution is a subjective document written by a bunch of men with wigs and wooden teeth and fancy pants in the 18th century who couldn’t possibly have foreseen the shape our modern world would take. So, when they wrote, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,” right there in the First Amendment, they didn’t mean to make it totally impossible to establish a state religion. Full story

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It's Like Vietnam All Over Again

Over the last 50 years war reenactment has gone from something guys at the Elks Club did on the weekend to get away from their wives to a full-blown obsession among history buffs with enough free time to make the experience as true to life as possible. The Vietnam War has typical… Full story

Voter's Guide for the Indecisive

It’s an unproven sociological model, but why not give it a try? Let’s put women in control. Men have had 4,000 years in power, and during this time they have consistently done nothing but wage genocidal wars and raise taxes on the poor Full story

Meet My Grandpa

A Visit to Elkin, NC

The difference between the North and the South. Full story

Whoops! My State Is Filled with Homophobes

North Carolina has finally decided to let the whole country know that it hates gay people just as much as everyone else in the South. Full story

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The Taxidermist

Amy Ritchie is a hunter, a piano prodigy, and a nationally recognized champion taxidermist Full story