My time in South Carolina has been restricted to a few trips to Hilton Head Island I took with my family when I was a small child and numerous trips where all I saw was the interstate and a few rest stops as I transited through. I’m no expert on the Palmetto State. But there are some things I think I know about it. The people are very conservative. They have a natural suspicion of Yankees. They have your typical Southern manners and are generally polite.
None of this would predict any affinity for a blowhard Manhattanite insult-dog of a candidate like Donald Trump. Yet, he’s crushing the competition down there, including even their own senator, Lindsey Graham.
And I have only one explanation for that and it’s the same one that led them to fire on Fort Sumter and for Strom Thurmond to react to the integration of the army by running for president as a Dixiecrat.
I’m sorry, but there it is.
