The Left Anchor

So, there’s a campaign going on in my home state to inform the black population that Martin Luther King was a Republican. Adam Fogle at The Palmetto Scoop takes a look at it here.

I won’t argue the point that Martin Luther King was a Republican. I don’t have his voting history, but it’s not unlikely that he was. That said, the implications of this campaign (and Adam’s post) are highly misleading. Yes, the Republican Party did have a fine history as the party that ended slavery, however, while Democrats may have entered the 20th century as the party of slavery, by the 1960s, those Democrats that still held the party’s former racist views were located predominently in the South and over the next few decades, they either switched to the Republican party or the were voted out of office.
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A new study released by the University of South Carolina has concluded that incentives offered by the state to attract more film productions resulted in a net benefit to the state’s economy. This will, hopefully, resolve the issue between the Department of Commerce and the South Carolina Film Commission, which began last summer when the Dept. of Commerce and Gov. Mark Sanford decided to re-configure the incentives program. From Channel 2 in Charleston:
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