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I lived in South Carolina from 1993-2011. It is not North Carolina. Strom Thurmond is glorified there (there was a Strom Thurmond centre at Clemson University), every major highway and bridge in my area was named after a confederate figure from the civil war, they are proud of firing the shot that started the civil war. In 2008 the McCain-Palin signs were prolific, with nary an Obama-Biden sign to be seen.
I served on a jury in a drug case in which the prosecutor did almost nothing to prove the guilt of the defendant. They were counting on the jury to just rubber stamp a conviction for a Black defendant, so the prosecutor barely bothered to present a case. He would probably have gotten away with that, too, except for the lone Black woman on the jury (yes, me). Fully half of the jurors were more than willing to ignore things like the star witness contradicting herself and the arresting officer giving sketchy testimony. It ended with a hung jury.
About jury duty, I called my congressman to express my opinion about something and suddenly I was chosen for lots of jury duty. In addition to the one state criminal trial, I had to serve on local juries twice a year. They even tapped me for a grand jury, but that was right before we moved so I wasn’t required to serve. I’m 66 years old and have never been called for jury duty before or since. It was clearly retribution, but it didn’t stop me from giving Jim DeMint a piece of my mind from time to time.
It’s not Alabama or Mississippi, but neither is it North Carolina. It’ll be one of the last places to go blue, if it ever does.
Edited to correct spellcheck which doesn’t recognize the name Strom. Wish none of us did 
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