Think the Sanford affair was odd? S.C. has a long history of political weirdness
Welcome to South Carolina, where we never have to make up anything peculiar because our peculiarities are way too peculiar.
The tales of Gov. Mark Sanford's affair with an Argentine woman he calls his "soul mate" will live in infamy. But the almost addictive daily Sanford episodes won't have to dance alone. This kind of story from the political class has plenty of company in South Carolina.
We may not have seen anything this racy since the ex-wife of a jailed congressman from Myrtle Beach told Playboy magazine they had sex on the Capitol steps.
And it hasn't been long at all since our jaws dropped at the news that the old Dixiecrat, U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond, had fathered a child with an African-American maid at his family home when he was a young man.
After Thurmond died at age 100 in 2003, retired school teacher Essie Mae Washington-Williams revealed that she was the daughter of the former champion of racial segregation.
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The tales of Gov. Mark Sanford's affair with an Argentine woman he calls his "soul mate" will live in infamy. But the almost addictive daily Sanford episodes won't have to dance alone. This kind of story from the political class has plenty of company in South Carolina.
We may not have seen anything this racy since the ex-wife of a jailed congressman from Myrtle Beach told Playboy magazine they had sex on the Capitol steps.
And it hasn't been long at all since our jaws dropped at the news that the old Dixiecrat, U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond, had fathered a child with an African-American maid at his family home when he was a young man.
After Thurmond died at age 100 in 2003, retired school teacher Essie Mae Washington-Williams revealed that she was the daughter of the former champion of racial segregation.