Laurens was a wealthy South Carolinian who had made his money mainly in the slave trade, though he was always guilt-ridden about it and eventually turned against slavery.

Ravenel denies ever making any such remark, but hardly a single South Carolinian who went to the polls that year was unaware of it.

He was a South Carolinian who earned degrees at Wofford College there and at the University of Chicago.

Glenn Morshower is convincing as Cracker, the poor South Carolinian whose supreme value is to do his duty.

Bull was a South Carolinian who assisted Oglethorpe with the establishment of Savannah and, as a surveyor, laid out the original street grid.

It parallels the work of Mary Chesnut, the observant South Carolinian who transformed skeletal notations made during wartime into something far more polished long after the fact.

Lee Atwater, the South Carolinian who managed President Bush's 1988 campaign, stated the principle late last year with his usual pithiness.

"It's like bookends," said Bill Carrick, a South Carolinian who has been a Democratic political consultant in Washington and for nearly a decade here in California.

He might have done so, relying on the advice of former Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, a South Carolinian who had been close to him.