I sincerely hope that this person is not a member of my NPC group.
Maybe where she goes to school, this sort of behavior is tolerated, and maybe even seen as cute. It doesn't make it right, but it is not surprising in a lot of places.
In response to the person who posted in response to CT4's post: Just because racism isn't as big an issue to you as it is to other posters (who may or may not have experienced crippling racism in their and their ancestors' lives), it doesn't mean you have the right to toss it aside as "some crap about race issues".

Man, I'm not even from NC, and I know that people of ALL RACES refer to it as "Norf Cackalacky"--it's not ghetto!