South Carolina - The US Explained 

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Me during the first half of this video: "I know most of this already, but I'm learning." Second half: "oh." Beautiful video.

Thank you for not forgetting Florence, Sumter, and Anderson! Most videos like this focus far too much on Charleston and Myrtle Beach.

Thank you for this video! I was born in Greenville, SC in ‘99 and that is where I am still today. I definitely learned a few things, and have to agree with you. This is a very unique state.

Wide-ranging and pretty thorough, as always! One interesting wrinkle about the state is the smaller cities like Aiken and Camden that became winter retreats for the wealthy folks from out of state during the late 1800s and early 1900s. They would bring their racehorses down for the winter off-season, fostering a major equestrian economy in those towns. You can still watch polo matches in the spring in Aiken (at least you could when I lived there). It's a state of contrasts: incredible beaches and Southern charm, but also some shocking rural poverty. But you could say that about much of the U.S., truthfully.

Born, raised, live, and God willing will die here in South Carolina. Outside of a few small points, exceptionally well done!

As someone from SC, this video is quite good and accurate. Great job!

This was recommended as a SC resident, and it is very well done. Bravo

The small city of Aiken, located about 17 miles east of Augusta, Georgia, has a history worth exploring as well. Best known as a winter quartering area for world class horse breeding and training, it has an area in the center of town with racing tracks, polo fields, stables, etc., and the streets remain unpaved sand to accommodate the horses. Also in the center of town is a huge wooded area, known as Hitchcock Woods that were given to the city by a wealthy northern aristocrat that wintered in Aiken. It was part of the gift that the area would never be developed, but left in a natural state for people and horses to enjoy. Aiken was also the site of a minor civil war skirmish.

Someone in the earlier part of the 1800s said, "South Carolina, too small to be a country, and too big to be an insane asylum."

I love this series! So interresting for me as a German, I hope that I can visit this fascinating country soom enough :)

Born and raised in Orangeburg, SC and it’s really crazy how much I’ve learned about my state after being in California for 6+ years.

I'm glad you mention the Gullah Geechee people!

As a South Carolinian I loved this video, you did your research well. much love.

I was born and raised in South Carolina… I grew up in a small town called Lynchburg. Not too many people know about this town, but we’re right in between Sumter and Florence… I’m glad I came across this video. It highlighted a few things that I didn’t even know about my state!! Great work!! 👍🏾👍🏾

From a Marylander, South Carolina is one of the most beautiful state's I've been to.

Awesome video dude. I'm from Roebuck SC which is right outside of Spartanburg. I've always been fascinated with the Revolutionary War and the battles that took place in SC. Cowpens is one of the most known and is a historical park

I subscribed to your channel with the first video on this series and I'm so exceedingly happy that you're still going strong on these. I love these deep dives on each state!

Yet another amazing masterpiece from the king 🤩

I’m from Aiken, SC. We always get skipped on these sort of things 😂. Not too small but not too big to get noticed either…

I can't believe this is free! I hope I can catch up on the previous episodes in time for your newest!

What an excellently produced video. As a native South Carolinian, I learned a great deal of new information as well as being reminded of much of what I already knew.

Wonderful presentation👌 This channel truly deserves a huge subscription.

This is a very well written, and thorough video. Most videos on SC present it in a negative light. However, for almost anyone who live here it is a wonderful place and I, myself am proud to be a South Carolinian. Thank you for such a wonderful experience!!

Yay another one! Love these videos. Thank you :)

As a native I would like to weigh in a bit on somethings that were glossed over: - You stated that Anderson was south east of Greenville when it is mostly west - Greenville Spartanburg Metropolitan Area and Charleston Metropolitan are apart of the top 25 fastest growing regions in the US (with South Carolina being one of the fastest growing states by population). As an addendum, due to the rural nature of the state, it is easier to view the metropolitan regions rather than look at individual cities as some cities have formed out of the suburban sprawl of other cities. 1. Paris Island: More than a "Major Marine Corp installation", it is the birthplace of the Marine Corps and is the home to the Eastern Basic Training Facility. It was originally chosen for its swampy surroundings and coastal setting being great for practicing amphibious maneuvers, but later the DoD determined that during the July/August part of the year, Paris Island was one of the most inhospitable places on the East Coast as this coincided with peak mosquito swarms, humidity reaching and exceeding 90%, and average day time temperatures reaching 95. 2. Fort Jackson: Similarly to Paris Island, Fort Jackson is home to one of the Basic Training facility for the United States Army. 3. The Sandhills: Expanding on the topic of regional names and ancient coastlines, not only was the Fall Line is generally where the ancient coastline used to be, the surrounding area has a high level of sand content in its topsoil as a result, combined with the generally hilly nature of the region, parts of the Midlands is referred to as The Sandhills. While a narrow band, it is generally used by geologists to separate the Lower Coastal Planes from the Piedmont Regions as it signifies a transition from a Red Clay type of topsoil, to a darker loamy topsoil made from decaying swamp and coastal floodplain material. 4. Population Spread: At the time of writing this comment, South Carolina has 8.9 million residents, Within the Greenville (910,412) , Columbia (837,092), and Charleston (799,636) regions, resides less than half of total residents, South Carolina is incredibly rural. 5. Charleston and the Military: Not only is the Citadel a historically significant college for its ties to the US Military, Charleston as a city has held ties to the US Navy since the Revolutionary War. The Blockade of Charleston's Harbor was successful in routing the remainder of the British forces in the South out of the Carolinas as they knew no further aid would have safe passage to them through what they thought would be loyalist's largest ports. Later, the US Nuclear Power School and Naval Nuclear Power Training Command would be based out of Charleston's Naval base. Also, following the events of Pearl Harbor, Charleston's Naval Shipyard was responsible for the reconstruction of several Warships including the USS Missouri, where the Treaty of Tokyo ended the US's involvement in the Pacific Theater of WWII, and the USS Yorktown, which now overlooks the harbor and is a museum. 6. Lake Murray: As the second largest body of water in the State, Lake Murray is an entirely man-made lake! Located on the Saluda River, the Lake was developed as a reservoir of water for the surrounding city and as the cite of a coal power plant. Later, the Dam would be retrofitted for Hydroelectric power and is home to one of the largest Bass Fishing tournaments in the world! Also, during World War II, Owens Field Airport was used as the training grounds for the Doolittle Raiders as it was 6 ft. shorter than the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, B25s would fly out over Lake Murray and use Bomb Island as practice before circling back and landing at Owens Field. 7. Columbia: Columbia itself was a city that was intentionally built on the Fall Line as it allowed easy access by both the upstate and low country to use the navigable rivers. Since it was a city specifically built for the purpose of holding state government, it was the first planned city in all of the US! 8. Public Research Initiatives: Both Clemson University and the University of South Carolina (which I will be referring to as USC for brevity) are among some of the top institution for Public Research with Clemson hosting the Advanced Manufacturing and Research Lab (Pendleton) , the Clemson University Research Institute (Charleston), the Sandhills Ecology Lab (Richland), and the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (Greenville); The Adaptive Real-Time Systems Lab, and The Advanced Materials Discovery and Simulation Lab both hosted by USC and the Joint Labs for the Edisto Natural Conservation Lab and the Beaufort Barrier Island Conservation Lab. All of this leads to South Carolina having one of the quickest developing research corridors in the South. 9. Annulment: So, before we dive into this topic I think it's important to set up some important context that comes from the Revolutionary War (and subsequently why there were so many conflicts in the State), as most US school children are taught, the primary reasons the revolutionary war was started was due to unfair taxation to fund the 100 years war (or as it was known here as the French and Indian War) by George III. While this is true, Great Britain was terrified of the French influence that was growing in Charleston and was worried they would lose their monopoly on rice and indigo and had exempted the Elite Planter class from the majority of these taxes to encourage them to stay loyal to them rather than selling to any other foreign power. As such, South Carolina for most of the Revolutionary War was against rebellion, and was predominantly Loyalists. As such, when the war dragged on, British Forces believed that they could retreat to South Carolina and resupply through the Charleston Harbor before marching back north. Per British Law, any subject must provide quarter for troops, without consent of the Owner for any length of stay that British Officers enacted onto Charleston. This, in stark contrast to the favoritism shown previously, enraged many South Carolinians and turned most of the state against the British that believed that they were entitled to anything they wanted while in South Carolina. This is why enshrined in the Constitution is the "right to refuse quarter" also known as Article V. Moving forward to Annulment, the believe that South Carolina could exempt out of laws or choices made by this government comes from this exemption from taxation that the British had given them prior to the start of the war. The belief at the time was that the US Government would be closer to what the European Union is today than the Federal Government that we have now and that opting out was just as easy as opting into this union. I am not condoning their reasons or their actions, I am wanting to provide context behind why they thought this was possible. Other Fun Facts: The Venus Flytrap is actually Native to South Carolina and Louisiana and can still be found in the wild! The Praying Mantis is also native to South Carolina and is our State Insect! Sweet Tea (as known by Americans) was said to be created in Charleston when they chose to add sugar to Black Tea (which was treated more like coffee at the time and had only cream) The Story of Robert Smalls! His story is too long to tell, but should be known more outside of Charleston! Read his story here: www.nps.gov/people/robert-smalls.htm

Finally, a South Carolina video that doesn't completely ignore Greenville. We exist too, people!

My favorite RU-vid channel, keep it up man

Adding this to my list. Just rolled into the state about an hour after you posted. How serendipitous.

I know this is gonna be a great video. Another state down! If you haven’t you could join the discord server too it’s pretty cool. We do geography VC game nights, talk about geography, politics, and pretty much everything

Congaree is an awesome National Park, definitely under rated

I love this channel. Keep doing your thing

This series is really good! Greetings from Brazil

Well done. I am from SC originally and have been everywhere in SC. You hit the nail on the head. Imperfect history and a tough place to describe. It's a much better place to live than in the past.

You did an awesome job explaining South Carolina. Thanks you

Great video man! Love your channel for sure

These are great videos! Keep it up

Another Great Vid

You presented this well, I'm subscribing to see your other videos 👍🏿

Great job! Some of these "recent" pics of the cities are several years old & include buildings and businesses that no longer exist, but I suppose that's incidental. Fascinating stuff.

very very good video. very well explained and thorough

This was super interesting! I'm from South Carolina myself, and I think you did a really good job making this video and covering the state's history and cultural traits. 👍

Another great video!

The Sabal palmetto, the tree on South Carolina’s flag, is one of the thousands of species of palm tree

Hi Carter, I absolutely love your channel. I have trouble falling asleep and it’s so fun and relaxing to listen to your videos. You are extremely thorough and I appreciate you covering all aspects and including indigenous people. The map you shared on them was really cool too. I am curious as to what your age is as you sound so young! I’m very proud of you and I wish you all the success in your great channel!

Imagine my devastation when I quickly went to this playlist, only to see that my home, the Great State (😩) of Tennessee has, yet to get its video. Seriously, I love this series. Thanks for doing it.

Nice to see my town Anderson on here. I loved this video.

Three generations of my family have lived (& live) in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Thanks for this presentation.

Awesome video!

once you get to Michigan, I'll be glad to help, as someone who's lived here their whole life (also hope you make it to 80k subs soon!)

being from south carolina and having worked in greenville, columbia, and charleston I would say they all are equal in size, all three have suburbs that really should be included in the city population especially charleston where many of the "residents" live in separate municipalities, this is very true in greenville and Columbia as well, each city probably has a total population of around 750,000 and honestly greenville and columbia are closer to 1,000,000

Born and Raised in Charleston! Love my State. Great video. Much thanks

Extremely interesting! I'm new to South Carolina and learned a lot from it. I look forward to when you do Illinois, but will be watching all the states videos.

Spartanburger here, this is a really good video and is pretty accurate! Great Job!

Great videos. Looking forward to your Michigan one, the state right next to my Province of Ontario.

I learned so much from this one 👏🏾

I love this series

I just got back from Charleston yesterday! It was amazing to visit :)

Epic as usual, looking forward to the state with the best license plate slogan..."Live Free or Die"

I actually remember watching on TV Strom Thurmond winning his last senate election. I only now kinda understand how strange it is for someone born in 95 to witness a Re-election of someone who ran for President in 1948

Love your work!!! Please make a NC and NM video!!!!

Very thorough and interesting, ty

This is good to know as we’ve been here in SC for almost 10 years.

My dad has worked in North, South Carolina for over 20 years and it confused the shit out of me as a young kid.

Amazing video.

I already binged all your videos and they are interesting, can't wait you do my state but it will take a while.

I grew up in North Augusta and now live in "Disgusta". It's just a really big small town. Great video!

Very neat! I always wanted to visit South Carolina! :) Maybe, one day when I have some money and am much more established I can go! Looks Awesome. Great series here! :)

That is very interesting about south Carolina it was my first time you visiting the fantastic state.

Well done. Thanks you. Great State!

As a native South Carolinian this was a great video! Learned some new things actually 😅

This was a great video

I've been watching your videos on the states and after watching the video on Delaware I was surprised that you didn't explain the unusual Northern circular boundary I know a little bit about this boundary and I think it would be worth your while to look into it and add it to your next edited version of the coverage on the state of Delaware

You mentioned the Savanah River Site, which I grew up right next to in a small town called New Ellenton. Very interesting story about that area. The reason it's called New Ellenton is because the government took the town of Ellenton

Thanks for making your videos unbiased political Ly! I love everyone of them!

Thank you very much! 👍

Every time you make one of these videos I think to myself “this is now my favorite state” 😂

Listening as I house clean 🌙🌴

I am from South Carolina and I love my state!!

Dang, I wish I knew about this series before this video came out. I could've helped quite a bit.

Good job on the video. I am from Beaufort SC.

Great stuff

Ah my home state, I absolutely love this state, despite it's history and me not exactly being politically aligned with the state as a whole, it's still my favorite state, though both our northern and southern neighbors are pretty close

These are great! Thank you so much for bringing early US education to us, we only got so much unless it was our major. Please include "keys" to the colored maps it would help clarify some things. Safe Travels!

That slideshow at the beginning reminded me of how beautiful our skyline is in Hartford compared to other major cities in the northeast!!

The SC state flag is indigo blue. Indigo was a dye from a plant that was predominantly grown in Charleston.

If anyone wants to listen to the intro music, it's Lemmino-Cipher

The bit in this video about Calhoun has a fair amount of mischaracterization in my opinion. It's true that Calhoun was pro-slavery, but that was probably his least unique trait and is overemphasized by modern history text books. He was far from "the most ardent supporter of slavery" and his positions on slavery were incredibly common in his day and society. They were not original to him at all. Every argument he made for slavery was recycled from others, mostly made by northern slavery interests just decades earlier. But like I stated earlier, his stance on slavery was not what made him so important in his day. It was his speeches and influence in policy, especially when it came to federalism and state sovereignty. His ideas of nullification also came directly from Thomas Jefferson and James Madison who wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798 and 1799. Calhoun used to be considered one of the greatest statesmen in American history even by the likes of John F. Kennedy. Alas, in recent years he has been demonized, and no one is allowed to admire any of his good traits. Presentism at its finest.

This is the best series on RU-vid 😃👍

Very well made. I’ve subscribed and will be watching others. One minor error- Anderson is SW of Greenville not SE.

keep it up dude!

Excellent video, and series overall. I will say Greenville-Spartanburg (The Upstate) is the dominant region of South Carolina as far as population, economics and is generally the fastest growing area of the state. SC has incredibly restrictive annexation laws, and such laws have an impact on the Upstate in particular where suburbs have nearly the same population as the primary city as in the case with Greer and Mauldin both likely surpassing Spartanburg in the near future though said suburbs are obviously smaller/less significant than Spartanburg. The Upstate is located between ATL and Charlotte along I-85, and is actually considered a top 40 CSA in the country ahead of CSA's such as OKC, NOLA, and Buffalo. What's interesting about Greenville in particular is that its by far the most populated county in the state with over 550k residents (compared to the next most populated county, Richland County, where the capital is located, having 425k residents), its urban area is technically split into two different urban areas one being Greenville, the other being Mauldin-Simpsonville. Not sure the rationale for splitting the county into two different urban areas is but either way its rapidly becoming the most urban part of the state.

Great video! Awesome content! I will say though, at 2:33, a Sabal palmetto is absolutely a palm tree. What's unique though is that palm trees are not even trees at all, they are actually in the grass plant family.

Im part native American. Cherokee so im a native, native of South Carolina

Worth mentioning that the suburbs around Charlotte (Fort Mill, Tega Cay, and Rock Hill) have been some of the fastest growing towns in the country, so many people from up north are moving here to work in Charlotte. Fort Mill alone went from 1 4A high school to 3 5A high schools in just 15 years, and there's no signs of things slowing down any time soon

Why have I not heard of South Carolina barbeque? That mustard sauce looks amazing.

We’re from Kansas but we now live in Maine! We would be interested on both Maine and Kansas videos next!

Good video man, can you do New Hampshire next

nice info

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