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The relatively small state of South Carolina remains, with Mississippi, one of the poorest and most rural pockets of the US, although the prime real estate along its coast has lately been developed into exclusive golf courses and tennis clubs. Politics in the first state to secede from the Union in 1860 have traditionally been conservative. Reconstruction was mired in terrible Klan violence, while demagogues openly espoused lynching and enforced ''Jim Crow'' laws with frightening zeal. The state contains two of the country's most right-wing minor universities - football-fixated Clemson, and Christian Bob Jones University in Greenville, a training ground for the fundamentalist right.
South Carolina's fascinating subtropical coastline of sea islands, great beaches, marshes and lush palmetto groves preserves traces of a virtually independent black culture (featuring the unique patois gullah), from the days when slaves escaped the mainland plantations. Beyond the grand old peninsular port of Charleston, arguably the most elegant city in the US with its rainbow-colored old buildings and magnificent, tree-lined avenues, restored plantations stretch as far north as Georgetown, en route toward the poseur's paradise of Myrtle Beach. Inland, the rolling Piedmont and flat coastal plain hold little to see.
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Charleston has South Carolina's biggest airport, with flights to and from major towns on the east coast. Three Amtrak routes cut through the state, stopping at Greenville and Clemson in the west, Columbia and other towns in the center and Charleston on the coast. Buses run along I-85 between Charlotte, North Carolina, and Atlanta, and a less regular service operates along the coast, stopping at Myrtle Beach and Charleston.
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The peaceful waterfront of Georgetown, the first town beyond Myrtle Beach to be anything more than a beach town, makes a refreshing and quite extraordinary contrast, while the main street has a late-Fifties feel. Ask at the visitor center, 1001 Front St., for a self-guided walking tour sheet to the fine antebellum and eighteenth-century houses in the 32-block historic district in the center. A quick stroll down the boardwalk, however, gives all-too-clear views of the monstrous steel works on the opposite bank.
Further south, beyond the forest and a few miles north of Charleston, is the much-publicized Boone Hall Plantation. A visit is a sanitized and annoying experience: the plantation may date from the late seventeenth century but the house is a twentieth-century reconstruction used for much television and movie filming. Tours are conducted by hapless young women in southern belle costumes, who rather overplay the connections with Gone with the Wind. The grounds are more interesting, with a long, tree-lined drive and another rare slave street, this time of small mid-eighteenth-century brick cabins that housed privileged slaves - domestic servants and skilled artisans.
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South Carolina offers a number of outdoor adventures, including hiking, backpacking, boating, fishing, bicycling, and more. The ability to walk considerable distances without becoming overtired (an ability generally acquired through practice) also enhances the enjoyment of such other South Carolina activities as bird watching, nature walks, field trips, and sightseeing.
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This article was derived fully or in part from the South Carolina article from Travelnow.™ Fullfillment services by Hotels.com.™
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