ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the geography and landscape of present-day South Carolina. World War II and the years following it marked a watershed in the evolution of South Carolina’s landscape equal to that of the War Between the States. In contrast to almost 150 years of outmigration, people from other parts of the country moved to South Carolina during the 1970s. For more than a century and a quarter after 1830, South Carolina’s population grew slowly and erratically as the state suffered under a poor economy and from outmigration. The changing political, social, and especially economic climate of the South during the 1970s modified black perception of South Carolina and other southern states. Metropolitan Statistical Area is more indicative of the nature of South Carolina’s urbanization than the percent urban population because they embrace specifically rural areas of the state where urban growth has been the greatest.
