Nah, North Carolina's a southern state.
I THINK the division as far as north and south goes in Kentucky: again, living in the southeast, whenever we're shown "regional maps", it usually contains Louisiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Florida... everything north of those is considered the north. Then, you have states like Montant, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Kansas, Iowa, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma and such that are considered "The Mid-West"... why they're called "mid-west", I don't know, unless it's because it's because they're in the middle of the country, and their geography is more similar to the west than the east.