South Carolina’s website says that the state was originally settled by the Spanish in the 1500s. Early English settlers included many Barbadians, and South Carolina came to resemble more closely the plantation economy of the West Indies. African American slaves were in the majority for many years after the Civil War. That situation changed in the 1920s when many Black people migrated to northern cities.
The infamous senator and vice president of the United States, John Calhoun, was from South Carolina. In 1856 South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks beat abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner with a cane while Sumner sat at his desk. Sumner nearly died from that beating. South Carolina was the first to secede from the Union in 1860 prior to the Civil War. The heart of the confederacy was South Carolina. Governor Mark Sanford is a staunch conservative and “family values” kind of guy who apparently saw no contradiction in his moral code of ethics when he had an affair with a woman from Argentina and lied to cover it up.
South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson is following in a tradition of very bad behavior. His outburst was a mild form of South Carolinian conduct. Maybe that is the reason most of us Yankees are not welcome there.
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