David A. Arnott | Writer, editor, podcaster, thinker, and doer from San Francisco, California, now living in Charlotte, North Carolina

Stock car racing to be North Carolina's official sport

I appreciate NASCAR as much as any urban-born, urban-raised, mostly-urban-dwelling citizen, but naming stock car racing the official sport of North Carolina is ridiculous.

The obvious choice is basketball, but why honor a sport with an even longer history in the state, one that anyone can play recreationally at any time, and that almost certainly contributes to more than the “20,000 jobs” the motorsports industry creates?

9:28 am - 21 Jun 2011
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Filed under: #basketball #NASCAR #North Carolina #Bev Perdue #politics