Perhaps Honesty Is Better
29th April 2020
So Mr. Clyburn’s district is dominated by two cities that are far apart and have little to do with each other: Charleston and Columbia. But it excludes Charleston and Columbia – at least the parts of those cities that are populated largely by *gasp* white people. So he basically controls very specific areas of those two cities and the entire coastal region of South Carolina. Except for the actual coast, of course, because that rather expensive real estate is populated largely by *gasp* white people. Like me, for example. I really should be in Mr. Clyburn’s district. But I’m not, because too many of my neighbors are *gasp* white.
I live in Hilton Head, which is in South Carolina’s first congressional district, which looks even more absurd that Mr. Clyburn’s district, as you can see from the map at the left. Interestingly, Mr. Clyburn’s 6th congressional district and my 1st congressional district are the only Democrat districts in the state, and that clearly was not an accident. Look at the maps. They worked hard to get two Democrats into congress from South Carolina – one from poor blacks and one from wealthy whites.