South Carolina carefully eyes Democrats By Patrik Jonsson, csmonitor
On a 100-mile journey here from the low country near Lake Marion, through the state's hard-hit midlands, to the edge of textile territory with its rolling hills – that uphill battle was in motion in the days before Tuesday's key primary. In conversations with farmers, lawyers, nannies, and laid-off plant workers, a deepening frustration and soul searching was clear—not just over the economy and the war, but in a genuine search for the country's next steps and a tarnished American dream.
"It just seems we've lost something in this country, and frankly it's upsetting," says Glenn Costenbader, a laid-off plant worker and union boss in hardscrabble Winnsboro, S.C.