[Ads-l] (Modest) blog post on early "Tar Heels"

[Bonnie Taylor-Blake]

I recently put together some research on very early uses of "tar heels" and
how the epithet may have been attached to North Carolinians. Some of this
has appeared on ADS-L before, but I thought I should make a more coherent
story out of these posts and incorporate some of your suggestions and finds.

If you're interested, you can read about this at

https://btaylorblake.com/2022/04/29/who-put-the-tar-in-tar-heels/

Comments, questions, and criticisms are welcome, of course.

I'm grateful to ADS-L members for their feedback along the way, especially
Fred Shapiro, who made me aware of an important Civil War diary containing
the moniker. I also owe thanks to Garson O'Toole and Peter Reitan, who
shared on the list important examples of the phrase "tar on the heel."

-- Bonnie

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