IMO, South Carolina will be deep purple like North Carolina within eight years. The generations that built South Carolina's conservative reputation are dying off. Immigrants from other states and nations bring their political views. SC's economy statewide is poor(we are basically Mexico to BMW, Michelin,and Boeing). The state GOP talks the conservative talk but are nothing more than tax and spend despots. Add in huge unfunded state/local governmental pensions and looming unfunded Federal mandates, no wonder that South Carolina is listed among the fiscal death spiral states in Forbes magazine. This of course will lead to more Federal dependency and constituents of the Progressives. Not to say that SC has not had a great run however. Mississippi or Alabama look like the states that will stay Red the longest.
That's what hubby and I are counting on! We hope to move back home to MS, from MA in the next year or two. We've been away since hubby graduated from college in 1976, and we moved for grad school, then jobs in several cities 'up North'. We've visited each year, but are looking forward to living in a sane place, heading into our retirement years.
Very depressing... I hope you are wrong! ;-)
Thanks for your input. I trust your comments, as you are a resident of the State of South Carolina.
SC still sounds a LOT better than The People's Socialist Republik of Connecticut. Some of my favorite Congressmen are Rep. Trey Gowdy, new Senator Tim Scott and Rep. Joe Wilson. And of course I've always been a huge Sen. Jim DeMint fan. I like Gov. Nikki Haley, from what I've heard about her... although it made me a bit queasy to see her so chummy with Mitt Romney.
The Congress critters from CT are among the absolute worst - and most far left - in the country. They are truly disgusting, corrupt people. Plus CT is a gay state (per one judge's opinion, so he simply "updated" CT's Constitution), every major city in CT is an illegal alien sanctuary city, and CT is a huge pro-union and high-tax state. People are leaving in droves, except retired pension-rich 50+-year-olds who used to work for the State or had a Federal job. I could go on and on...