ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that South Carolina, despite its small area, is a geographically diverse place. It considers the history of human occupation and the resultant cultural landscapes and aims to determine their nature and examines the processes associated with their formation. The chapter attempts to synthesize the spatial and temporal differences through a regional approach. It outlines formal regions as defined by a single criterion, the styles of barbecue preparation and looks at functional regions primarily delineated on the basis of newspaper circulation. The chapter discusses subdivide the state into geographic regions: multiple-factor formal regions that are defined by the physical and cultural landscapes of present-day South Carolina. Pork barbecue has been a tradition in South Carolina for a long time, and the state offers what many consider the quintessence of southern barbecue. Newspaper penetration data were used to construct 14 hypothesized functional regions for South Carolina.
