It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.

Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.

When I went through Marine boot camp in Paris Island, South Carolina, we actually did have bayonets that we trained with.

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.

We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina.

Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.