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Posted: September 17, 2009

Yahoo users say Raleigh's hardest state capital to remember

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Raleigh, N.C. — Searches on Yahoo.com indicate that Raleigh is the country's hardest state capital to remember, according to a spokeswoman for the Internet search engine.

Yahoo.com has seen a 43 percent surge in searches for state capitals in the past 30 days, spokeswoman Laura Dempsey said. The most frequent search was for the capital of North Carolina.

Coming behind Raleigh as hard-to-remember state capitals were the seats of government in California, Alaska, Maryland, Georgia, Florida, Montana, New Mexico, New York and Washington.

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Dempsey said that more than half the people searching for state capitals were over age 30.

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Hah, well, maybe it's the most sought after? There's probably far less searching for the capital of North Dakota.

dougdeep
September 18, 2009 2:24 p.m.

It's probably all the Wake County HS'ers trying to figure out the state capital.

speedy
September 18, 2009 1:32 p.m.

Yep pretty odd considering that NC is the 11th most populous state.

Mid-Rd
September 18, 2009 1:14 p.m.

starletta and speedy: "Raleigh's" is correctly used in this article because it is a contraction for "Raleigh is"

The increase is probably due to health care reform and people looking to see who they can contact in different state capitals or it is because school children are doing geography or social studies.