It’s a chance for the state of South Carolina to again make political history, and pick a next president.

The best words about South Carolina politics weren’t written by an academic or some traveling journalist, but by a native of Pickens County who explained the disagreement between those who lived in the upstate and their counterparts in the low country.

A spectre is haunting universities in the American South these days. This time the hostility has new actors, but the plot of racial animosity is painfully familiar.