“South Carolina is peculiar, this event is in the Upstate, which is in some ways another planet from the Low Country. Upstate is more friendly to rabble-rousing and upsetting the apple cart, Low Country is political establishment all the way.”
Not even close. Low Country is STILL General Francis Marion/Swamp Fox territory FILLED, and I do mean FILLED, with shell-backed, die-hard conservatives. Sure, Charleston has their share of wealthy, old-school lawyers and such, but they ain’t all that many votes, and big money campaign expenditures haven’t moved the needle one iota on the GOP Presidential primary gauge.
Low Country keeps putting Graham back in, Upstate despises him.