North Carolinians returned from World War II with new expectations — about jobs, technology, and standards of living. In this chapter we’ll explore some of those changes, along with changes in popular culture — and many things that stayed much the same.

Section Contents

• The GI Bill
• The Interstate Highway System
• Interstate Highways from the Ground Up
• Changes in Agriculture 1860-
• Growing Tobacco
• The Influence of Radio
• The Grandfather Mountain Highland Games
• The Andy Griffith Show
• Selling North Carolina, One Image at a Time
• More than Tourism: Cherokee, North Carolina, in the Post-War Years
• The Singing on the Mountain
• Scottish Heritage at Linville
• The Harriet-Henderson Textile Workers Union Strike: Defeat for Struggling Southern Labor Unions
• W. Kerr Scott: From Dairy Farmer to Transforming North Carolina Business
  and Politics
• Governor Terry Sanford: Transforming the Tar Heel State with Progressive Politics and Policies