I’m retired in South Carolina. Doesn’t have a lot of the ethnic & religious tensions found elsewhere. People of different races are generally polite to each other. Muslims keep to themselves and are very quiet. What few liberals we have are ghettoized in the campuses & mostly carp about how `backward’ S.C. is. Fags can’t even keep a gay bar in business. NAACP boycott over the rebel flag remains in place.
How explain it? The answer in my opinion is that South Carolina is awash in guns. Earning your CWP takes a day. Hunters line the roads during deer drives. Gun manufacturers are relocating here. There is a pro-gun culture & a Castle Doctrine law that makes liberals cringe. A bill to teach the Second Amendment in schools is working its way to the State House.
Criminals don’t know who’s carrying & that’s a good thing. FWIW I have my CWP but have yet to carry concealed (you don’t need one for a handgun in the glovebox).
No plans to move anywhere else. If you want to visit a foreign country, plan a weekend in Charleston (just kidding). If you want to be surrounded by northerners, there’s Hilton Head Island (I go there all the time BTW).
“Why should I travel? I’m already here!”
I like South Carolina, always have. I worked one Summer at a retreat in the North Carolina Mountains. There were 3 girls from S.C. on our crew and all three were babes. One was “Miss Dillon, SC”. They were also nice girls.
The one thing I don’t understand is how Sen. Graham managed to get reelected.