I mean, for NC it's the Durham/Raleigh suburbs plus Duke University, so plenty of out of staters (seriously, just go to Duke gardens on a weekend, it's pretty amazing how many languages are spoken). Which would probably explain a lot of it.
Eeeyup. I done good at readin, ritin, and rithmetic, but then they got ritin in thuh rithmetic and it all went ta hell. I'm plenty smart without that book learnin anyway.