THE GREAT AMERICAN POLITICAL ROADTRIP: SOUTH CAROLINA
Fun Fact: Since 2008, Democratic presidential candidates have won 12 of the original 13 colonies in presidential contests. The only one that hasn’t voted Democratic this century?
South Carolina.
The Palmetto State is notoriously conservative. The Civil War started here, and South Carolina was the first state to join the Confederacy. It was the epicenter of Reconstruction and Jim Crow and, since the Civil Rights Era, has become a hotbed for Evangelicalism. A Dixiecrat state, Democrats were dominant during the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras but have been practically nonexistent since the 1980s.
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