THE WAXHAWS, Carolinas (AP) - For a century, South Carolina and North Carolina have politely argued over where President Andrew Jackson was born.

South Carolina claims Jackson as its only president, building a state park at where Jackson said he was born in the state's Lancaster County.

But North Carolina has a statue of the seventh president along with two others at its state capitol in a display called "Presidents North Carolina Gave the Nation."

The North Carolina Daughters of the American Revolution put up a monument on a site in Union County where another member of Jackson's family said he was born.

And don't look to the White House for the answer: its website lists Jackson's birthplace as a "backwoods settlement in the Carolinas."

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