Google “Why is South Carolina the most racist state?” and you will find this:

South Carolina– The Most Racist State?

We all know that South Carolina has a dismal history when it comes to how  it’s treated African-Americans, but few are aware just how racist  South Carolina’s history really is.

There are  few places in America that have treated Native Americans as brutally.   South Carolinians were the largest slave traders of Native Americans in the Americas. The peaceful Cherokee were either enslaved, driven out of  the state, or murdered.

South Carolina   became the wealthiest of the thirteen colonies because of the African  slave trade. Charleston Harbor was the main entry point for bringing slaves  into the country. No other colony relied on slaves more, and soon blacks   outnumbered whites. By 1760 Charleston was the richest town in America.    Despite its wealth, residents lived in constant fear of slave revolts  and resorted to draconian measures to keep their slaves in submission.

After the  Stono Rebellion occurred in 1740, one of the deadliest slave revolts in the nation’s history, South Carolina reacted with the slave codes.   Because the rebellion was led by educated blacks, laws were put into place      that prohibited blacks from meeting and mandated that their children wouldn’t  be allowed schooling. In the Twentieth Century, South Carolina would have  the largest percentage of its people in America who couldn’t read   or write, mainly due to its determination to keep blacks uneducated.

The Scottish Rite was created in direct response to the successful slave revolution in Haiti. Its original location is at Shepherd’s Tavern in Charleston.  The Scottish Rite led the anti-Catholic, anti-immigration Americanism  movement that revived the KKK. They became enormously powerful. In 1928   for example, 59 United States Senators and 317 members of the House of   Representatives were 33 degree members of the Scottish Rite. Later, the   exclusive club fought against integration and the Civil Rights movement.

The first Baptist church in the South was formed in Charleston, South Carolina.  Southern Baptists supported slavery and believed that biblical scripture  supported it. It wasn’t until recently, that the church moved away         from this position.

On April  12th, 1861 cadets from The Citadel fired the first shots against the United  States at Ft. Sumter, South Carolina. That was when South Carolina became the first state to commit treason and leave the nation due to its absolute support of slavery.

Walk through Charleston and you’ll run into the Confederate Museum run by the Daughters of the Confederacy. It’s disturbing how many Confederate  memorials there are, but since the Confederate flag flies over the state’s capital, it is not really surprising.

You’ll  also see people flying a blue flag with a crescent moon and a Palmetto tree on it. That’s the flag for the Palmetto Republic. People who fly it are calling for the independence of South Carolina.

Organizations  like The League of the South call for the independence of the old South,  along with the repeal of affirmative action, attacks on immigration, the         revitalization of Anglo-Celtic culture, and the return to a white Christian  state.

There’s  no doubt why Bush went to the race card in 2000 and the Clintons  did this year. It’s a mistake, however, to think that Americans are  racist because of a few voters in South Carolina. Obama won’t get         white voters in South Carolina for obvious reasons, but that doesn’t mean the rest of the country feels the same way.  It is difficult to imagine a state with a worse record on how they’ve treated their fellow human beings than South Carolina.

To think that the South Carolina primary is one of the big ones that determine our president is hard to believe.

Aaron         Dahl