South Carolina Democrat's 2020

[Frenchrepublican]

I expected an ugly long-term trend in SC for a while but Harrison underperforming Biden was pretty shocking.

It seems pretty clear to me from all this that the suburban strategy probably isn't viable. I expect them to become more loyal to Democrats downballot, but that just isn't a valuable tradeoff for WWC downballot support and Hispanic down allot support.

Harrison did slightly better than him.

[Frenchrepublican]

I don't know how many of y'all care about South Carolina politics, but it's bad for the Democrats. Loosing Joe Cunningham, as well as seats in both chambers. Vincent Shaheen, Mandy Powers Norrell, and Laurie Funderburk among them. Everyone knows Jaime Harrison lost, but its worst then just loosing. He lost ground in many former democratic counties compared to 2014 and the counties were democrats were supposedly making gains (ex. Greenville) the results were basically the same, I know a lot of people expected SC to become more competitive, but it's going in the opposite direction.

That never made any sense, SC has been one of the most static state from a political perspective.
The problem for SC democrats is that they don't really have the equivalent of Atlanta or even Charlotte so by definition their growth perspectives are very limited.

[Frenchrepublican]

I don't know how many of y'all care about South Carolina politics, but it's bad for the Democrats. Loosing Joe Cunningham, as well as seats in both chambers. Vincent Shaheen, Mandy Powers Norrell, and Laurie Funderburk among them. Everyone knows Jaime Harrison lost, but its worst then just loosing. He lost ground in many former democratic counties compared to 2014 and the counties were democrats were supposedly making gains (ex. Greenville) the results were basically the same, I know a lot of people expected SC to become more competitive, but it's going in the opposite direction.

That never made any sense, SC has been one of the most static state from a political perspective.
The problem for SC democrats is that they don't really have the equivalent of Atlanta or even Charlotte so by definition their growth perspectives are very limited.

South Carolina does have some of the fastest growing counties (Horry and Greenville) in America. I’m not even 20 but I’ve definitely noticed significant growth in both areas. The issue is, unlike Charlotte (which some dems hoped would bleed over the border to help us) and Atlanta is that Horry and Greenville were never democratic. In fact Greenville was home to the few republicans in the stats pre-LBJ. We got the trend backwards. Our democratic areas are mostly shrinking while the republicans ones grow.

Yeah and it's not like if Horry was growing because of an influx of outstate black / white progressives, like it is the case of Atlanta.