Uploaded September 2018 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Here's song #68! The song had two sources of inspiration:
#1: A Gillian Welch song called "Look at Miss Ohio", that has the lines:
Oh me oh my oh
Look at Miss Ohio
She’s a running around with her rag-top down
She says "I wanna do right but not right now"
...anyway - I was biking home from work and I was standing at the intersection of Henderson and Rosemary and I thought of that song and I started to sing about "Miss North Carolina" as if she were some sort of trouble maker. From there it turned into "I miss Carolina, when am I gonna head back home" - a song about a North Carolina exile that wants to come home. So, that was inspiration #1.
#2 Once I had this idea of "I miss Carolina", I started to think about all the political rabble rousing that's going on in the state - and this was before the Silent Sam thing happened (a bunch of people knocked over Silent Sam a few weeks ago) - they've got these crazy state constitutional amendments that are coming out of no where that we are supposed to vote on. One of them declares that "hunting and fishing will be the primary means for managing fish and wildlife populations". Stupid stuff that seems like old folk trying to make it harder to young folk to get anything done in the state. So then the song went back to "Miss Carolina" - she being the true spirit of the state - she's gone and left us all covered in pretty weeds, but still weeds.
NOTE: I specifically used the antiquated term "Miss" instead of the more modern "Ms" because "Miss" is still used for beauty pageants - when the state picks the woman who most embodies the "spirit" of the state - she's beautiful, but also smart, caring and determined to change the world for the better. She's the one that's gone and we need her back.
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Here's song #68! The song had two sources of inspiration:
#1: A Gillian Welch song called "Look at Miss Ohio", that has the lines:
Oh me oh my oh
Look at Miss Ohio
She’s a running around with her rag-top down
She says "I wanna do right but not right now"
...anyway - I was biking home from work and I was standing at the intersection of Henderson and Rosemary and I thought of that song and I started to sing about "Miss North Carolina" as if she were some sort of trouble maker. From there it turned into "I miss Carolina, when am I gonna head back home" - a song about a North Carolina exile that wants to come home. So, that was inspiration #1.
#2 Once I had this idea of "I miss Carolina", I started to think about all the political rabble rousing that's going on in the state - and this was before the Silent Sam thing happened (a bunch of people knocked over Silent Sam a few weeks ago) - they've got these crazy state constitutional amendments that are coming out of no where that we are supposed to vote on. One of them declares that "hunting and fishing will be the primary means for managing fish and wildlife populations". Stupid stuff that seems like old folk trying to make it harder to young folk to get anything done in the state. So then the song went back to "Miss Carolina" - she being the true spirit of the state - she's gone and left us all covered in pretty weeds, but still weeds.
NOTE: I specifically used the antiquated term "Miss" instead of the more modern "Ms" because "Miss" is still used for beauty pageants - when the state picks the woman who most embodies the "spirit" of the state - she's beautiful, but also smart, caring and determined to change the world for the better. She's the one that's gone and we need her back.
For a complete index of all the StatQuest videos, check out:
statquest.org/video-index
If you'd like to support StatQuest, please consider...
Patreon: patreon.com/statquest
...or...
YouTube Membership: youtube.com/channel/UCtYLUTtgS3k1Fg4y5tAhLbw/join
...buying one of my books, a study guide, a t-shirt or hoodie, or a song from the StatQuest store...
statquest.org/statquest-store
...or just donating to StatQuest!
paypal.me/statquest
Lastly, if you want to keep up with me as I research and create new StatQuests, follow me on twitter:
twitter.com/joshuastarmer
