North+Carolina+Roars+Through+the+Twenties

=After World War 1 ended, North Carolinians took the ride of their lives. Never before had some North Carolinians been so rich. Never before had most state residents been so poor.=



=The arrival of the automobile= = North Carolinians had known about cars since about 1905, when weathy industrialists and physicians brought them home to every town in the state. By 1912, townspeople used them on a daily basis .=



= The good roads state = =To make automobiles an integral part of industrial progress, state leaders decided to build a network of roads that would connect the industrial towns of the Piedmont with the raw materials grown on the Coastal Plain.=




 * Year || Rural || Urban || Percent Urban ||
 * 1900 || 1,707,020 || 186,790 || 9.9 ||
 * 1910 || 1,887,813 || 318,474 || 14,4 ||
 * 1920 || 2,068,753 || 490,370 || 19.2 ||
 * 1930 || 2,360,429 || 809,847 || 25.5 ||