Spent my high school years in Charleston and what drew me more was all the Revolutionary history. The South is full of Civil War sites, but very rare are the sites of our beginning of a national.
Lots of places shown look almost exactly the same today. One major thing has changed in Charleston though. Today; having money, and a lot of it, is absolutely required if you want to live in downtown Charleston.
Ive been to spring island, stood at the base of st assisi . I collected many colonial, Spanish, and stone tools and artifacts of all manner, even a 90 percent intact indian pottery bowl. It lies in the cheechessie river. Once owned by the Jerome family of N.Y. sadly, a large portion has been destroyed by residential development. Also found an intact olive jar nearby. Truly mystical.
13% committing 70% of the crime, not to mention all the brutal, deadly hate crimes they get away with, makes me think it wasn't as bad a system as some may make it out to be.
It wasn't, never heard of inflation? For example minimum wage back in 1930 was like 25¢ an hour which is the equivalent of almost 5$ here in 2024 so it wasn't much