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-| Governor = {{nowrap|[[Henry McMaster]] ([[Republican Party (United States)|R]])}}
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 | Lieutenant Governor = {{nowrap|[[Pamela Evette]] (R)}}
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 '''South Carolina''' ({{IPAc-en|audio=en-us-South Carolina.ogg|ˌ|k|ær|ə|ˈ|l|aɪ|n|ə}} {{respell|KARR|ə|LY|nə}}) is a [[U.S. state|state]] in the [[Southeastern United States|Southeastern]] region of the [[United States]]. It borders [[North Carolina]] to the north and northeast, the [[Atlantic Ocean]] to the southeast, and [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] to the southwest and south across the [[Savannah River]]. Along with North Carolina, it makes up the [[Carolinas]] region of the [[East Coast of the United States|East Coast]]. South Carolina is the [[List of U.S. states and territories by area|40th-largest]] and [[List of U.S. states and territories by population|23rd-most populous U.S. state]] with a recorded population of 5,118,425 according to the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]].<ref name="2020CensusQuickFacts"/> In {{As of|2019|bare=yes}}, its GDP was $213.45&nbsp;billion. South Carolina is composed of [[List of counties in South Carolina|46 counties]]. The capital is [[Columbia, South Carolina|Columbia]] with a population of 136,632 in 2020;<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/columbiacitysouthcarolina |title=QuickFacts: Columbia city, South Carolina |access-date=March 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190611105511/https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/columbiacitysouthcarolina/PST045218 |archive-date=June 11, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> while its [[List of municipalities in South Carolina|most populous city]] is [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]] with a 2020 population of 150,227.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/charlestoncitysouthcarolina |title=QuickFacts: Charleston city, South Carolina |access-date=March 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331042617/https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/charlestoncitysouthcarolina/PST045218 |archive-date=March 31, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[Upstate South Carolina|Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC Combined Statistical Area]] is the most populous [[Combined statistical area|combined metropolitan area]] in the state, with an estimated 2023 population of 1,590,636.<ref name="PopEstCBSA"/>
-South Carolina derives its name from King [[Charles I of England]], who was instrumental in establishing the English colony, with ''Carolus'' being the Latin equivalent of "Charles".<ref>{{cite book|last=N. C. Board of Agriculture|title=A sketch of North Carolina|url=https://archive.org/details/sketchofnorthcar00nort|date=1902|publisher=Lucas-Richardson Co|location=Charleston|page=[https://archive.org/details/sketchofnorthcar00nort/page/4 4]|ol=6918901M}}</ref> The [[Province of South Carolina]] was officially created in 1712. As one of the original [[Thirteen Colonies]], it transitioned to a [[Crown colony|royal colony]] in 1719. Throughout the [[American Revolutionary War]], South Carolina witnessed significant military engagement, hosting over 200 battles and skirmishes.<ref>[https://discoversouthcarolina.com/revolutionary-war Revolutionary War in South Carolina]. ''Discover South Carolina''. Retrieved July 15, 2022.</ref> On May 23, 1788, South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the [[Constitution of the United States|U.S. Constitution]]. As a [[slave states and free states|slave state]], it was the first to vote for secession from the Union on December 20, 1860. Following the [[American Civil War]], South Carolina was readmitted to the Union on July 9, 1868.
+South Carolina derives its name from King [[Charles I of England]], who was instrumental in establishing the English colony, with ''Carolus'' being the Latin equivalent of "Charles".<ref>{{cite book|last=N. C. Board of Agriculture|title=A sketch of North Carolina|url=https://archive.org/details/sketchofnorthcar00nort|date=1902|publisher=Lucas-Richardson Co|location=Charleston|page=[https://archive.org/details/sketchofnorthcar00nort/page/4 4]|ol=6918901M}}</ref> The [[Province of South Carolina]] was officially created in 1712. As one of the original [[Thirteen Colonies]], it transitioned to a [[Crown colony|royal colony]] in 1719. Throughout the American Revolutionary War, South Carolina witnessed significant military engagement, hosting over 200 battles and skirmishes.<ref>[https://discoversouthcarolina.com/revolutionary-war Revolutionary War in South Carolina]. ''Discover South Carolina''. Retrieved July 15, 2022.</ref> On May 23, 1788, South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the [[Constitution of the United States|U.S. Constitution]]. As a [[slave states and free states|slave state]], it was the first to vote for secession from the Union on December 20, 1860. Following the American Civil War, South Carolina was readmitted to the Union on July 9, 1868.
 In the early to mid-20th century, South Carolina experienced significant economic development with the establishment of numerous [[textile manufacturing|textile mills]] and [[mill town|factories]] throughout the state. The [[civil rights movement]] during the mid-20th century played a crucial role in dismantling segregation and discriminatory laws in the state. Following [[World War II]], South Carolina's [[economic diversity|economic diversification]] accelerated, leading to a broader range of industries. By the early 21st century, the state's [[Economy of South Carolina|economy]] had evolved to include sectors such as [[aerospace]], [[agribusiness]], [[automotive industry|automotive manufacturing]], and tourism.<ref>[https://greerdevelopment.com/2019-top-industries-in-south-carolina/ 2019 Top Industries in South Carolina] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210615023631/https://greerdevelopment.com/2019-top-industries-in-south-carolina/ |date=June 15, 2021 }}. ''greerdevelopment.com''. Retrieved June 14, 2021.</ref>
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 On March 26, 1776, the colony adopted the [[Constitution of South Carolina]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/sc01.asp |title=The Avalon Project : Constitution of South Carolina – March 26, 1776 |publisher=Avalon.law.yale.edu |date=June 30, 1906 |access-date=December 19, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117080717/http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/sc01.asp |archive-date=January 17, 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> electing [[John Rutledge]] as the state's first president. In February 1778, South Carolina became the first state to ratify the [[Articles of Confederation]],<ref>{{cite web|title=South Carolina State and Local Government|url=http://www.thegreenpapers.com/slg/SC.html|website=The Green Papers|access-date=October 25, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170115104528/http://www.thegreenpapers.com/slg/SC.html|archive-date=January 15, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> the initial governing document of the United States, and in May 1788, South Carolina ratified the [[United States Constitution]], becoming the eighth state to enter the union.
-During the [[American Revolutionary War]] (1775–1783), about a third of combat action took place in South Carolina,<ref name=gordon>{{cite book|last1=Gordon|first1=John W.|title=South Carolina and the American Revolution : a battlefield history|date=2007|publisher=University of South Carolina Press|location=Columbia|isbn=978-1570036613|edition=Paperback}}</ref> more than any other state.<ref name="sc-lib"/> Inhabitants of the state endured being invaded by British forces and an ongoing civil war between loyalists and partisans that devastated the backcountry.<ref name=gordon/> It is estimated 25,000 slaves (30% of those in South Carolina) fled, migrated or died during the war.<ref>Peter Kolchin, ''American Slavery: 1619–1877'', New York: Hill and Wang, 1994, p.73</ref>
+During the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), about a third of combat action took place in South Carolina,<ref name=gordon>{{cite book|last1=Gordon|first1=John W.|title=South Carolina and the American Revolution : a battlefield history|date=2007|publisher=University of South Carolina Press|location=Columbia|isbn=978-1570036613|edition=Paperback}}</ref> more than any other state.<ref name="sc-lib"/> Inhabitants of the state endured being invaded by British forces and an ongoing civil war between loyalists and partisans that devastated the backcountry.<ref name=gordon/> It is estimated 25,000 slaves (30% of those in South Carolina) fled, migrated or died during the war.<ref>Peter Kolchin, ''American Slavery: 1619–1877'', New York: Hill and Wang, 1994, p.73</ref>
 ===Antebellum===
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 An 1831 House Report from the Committee on Military Affairs noted that {{blockquote |text=Before the commencement of the war with Great Britain, and for a long time afterwards, the State of South Carolina was almost destitute of any of the means of military protection, excepting as such could be furnished by her own resources. In the harbor of Charleston alone were there any forts, and these were in so feeble a condition, that at a period, when a British squadron was engaged in sounding the depth of water off the bar, and its commander apparently meditating an attack upon the forts, the quantity of gunpowder in the harbor, belonging to the United States, was not more than sufficient to have enabled the garrison to fire a single round.<ref>{{cite web |title=H. Rept. 22-1 - South Carolina claims. December 15, 1831 |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/SERIALSET-00224_00_00-002-0001-0000 |website=GovInfo.gov |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |access-date=21 June 2023}}</ref>}}
-In the [[1860 United States presidential election|United States presidential election of 1860]], voting was sharply divided, with the South voting for the [[Southern Democrats]] and the North for [[Abraham Lincoln]]'s [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]]. Lincoln was anti-slavery, did not acknowledge the right to [[Secession in the United States|secession]], and would not yield federal property in Southern states. Southern secessionists believed Lincoln's election meant long-term doom for their slavery-based agrarian economy and social system.<ref>[[Avery Craven]], [http://lsupress.org/books/detail/the-growth-of-southern-nationalism-1848-1861/ ''The Growth of Southern Nationalism, 1848–1861''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525205452/http://lsupress.org/books/detail/the-growth-of-southern-nationalism-1848-1861/ |date=May 25, 2017 }}, 1953. {{ISBN|978-0-8071-0006-6}}, p. 391, 394, 396.</ref>
+In the [[1860 United States presidential election|United States presidential election of 1860]], voting was sharply divided, with the South voting for the [[Southern Democrats]] and the North for Abraham Lincoln's Republican Party. Lincoln was anti-slavery, did not acknowledge the right to [[Secession in the United States|secession]], and would not yield federal property in Southern states. Southern secessionists believed Lincoln's election meant long-term doom for their slavery-based agrarian economy and social system.<ref>[[Avery Craven]], [http://lsupress.org/books/detail/the-growth-of-southern-nationalism-1848-1861/ ''The Growth of Southern Nationalism, 1848–1861''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525205452/http://lsupress.org/books/detail/the-growth-of-southern-nationalism-1848-1861/ |date=May 25, 2017 }}, 1953. {{ISBN|978-0-8071-0006-6}}, p. 391, 394, 396.</ref>
 Lincoln was elected president on November 6, 1860. The state House of Representatives three days later passed the "Resolution to Call the Election of Abraham Lincoln as U.S. President a Hostile Act",<ref>{{cite web|title=Resolution to Call the Election of Abraham Lincoln as U.S. President a Hostile Act, 9 November 1860|url=http://www.teachingushistory.org/ttrove/ResolutiontocalltheelectionofAbrahamLincolnaHostileActNovember1860.html|website=Teaching American History in South Carolina|access-date=February 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301220726/http://www.teachingushistory.org/tTrove/ResolutiontocalltheelectionofAbrahamLincolnaHostileActNovember1860.html|archive-date=March 1, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> and within weeks South Carolina became the first state to [[Secession in the United States|secede]].<ref name="sc-lib"/>
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 {{Main|Ordinance of Secession|Confederate States of America|South Carolina in the American Civil War}}
 [[File:Broad Street Charleston South Carolina 1865.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.9|[[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]] in ruins, 1865]]
-On April 12, 1861, Confederate batteries began shelling the Union [[Fort Sumter]] in Charleston Harbor, and the [[American Civil War]] began. In November of that year, the Union attacked [[Port Royal Sound]] and soon occupied [[Beaufort County, South Carolina|Beaufort County]] and the neighboring [[Sea Islands]]. For the rest of the war, this area served as a Union base and staging point for other operations. Whites abandoned their plantations,<ref name="palm-hist"/> leaving behind about ten thousand enslaved people. Several Northern charities partnered with the federal government to help these people run the cotton farms themselves under the [[Port Royal Experiment]]. Workers were paid by the pound harvested and thus became the first enslaved people freed by the Union forces to earn wages.<ref name="vcu">{{cite web|title=The Port Royal Experiment (1862–1865)|url=http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/civil-war-reconstruction/port-royal-experiment/|website=Virginia Commonwealth University|access-date=February 15, 2017|date=February 24, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215124037/http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/civil-war-reconstruction/port-royal-experiment/|archive-date=February 15, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
+On April 12, 1861, Confederate batteries began shelling the Union [[Fort Sumter]] in Charleston Harbor, and the American Civil War began. In November of that year, the Union attacked [[Port Royal Sound]] and soon occupied [[Beaufort County, South Carolina|Beaufort County]] and the neighboring [[Sea Islands]]. For the rest of the war, this area served as a Union base and staging point for other operations. Whites abandoned their plantations,<ref name="palm-hist"/> leaving behind about ten thousand enslaved people. Several Northern charities partnered with the federal government to help these people run the cotton farms themselves under the [[Port Royal Experiment]]. Workers were paid by the pound harvested and thus became the first enslaved people freed by the Union forces to earn wages.<ref name="vcu">{{cite web|title=The Port Royal Experiment (1862–1865)|url=http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/civil-war-reconstruction/port-royal-experiment/|website=Virginia Commonwealth University|access-date=February 15, 2017|date=February 24, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215124037/http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/civil-war-reconstruction/port-royal-experiment/|archive-date=February 15, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
 Although the state was not a major battleground, the war ruined the state's economy. More than 60,000 soldiers from South Carolina served in the war,<ref name="palm-hist">{{cite web|title=Civil War in South Carolina|url=http://www.sc150civilwar.palmettohistory.org/edu/cw-sc.htm|website=Palmetto History|access-date=February 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525205833/http://www.sc150civilwar.palmettohistory.org/edu/cw-sc.htm|archive-date=May 25, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> with the state losing an estimated 18,000 troops.<ref>{{cite book|first=Walter B.|last=Edgar|title=South Carolina: A History|location=Columbia, South Carolina|publisher=University of South Carolina Press|year=1998|page=375}}</ref> Though no regiments of [[Southern Unionists]] were formed in South Carolina due to a smaller unionist presence, the [[Upstate South Carolina|Upstate]] region of the state would be a haven for Confederate Army deserters and resisters, as they used the Upstate topography and traditional community relations to resist service in the Confederate ranks.<ref>Carey, Liz. (July 5, 2014). [https://archive.independentmail.com/news/local/the-dark-corner-of-south-carolina-ep-413292035-345851752.html/ The dark corner of South Carolina]. ''Independent Mail''. Retrieved November 1, 2023.</ref> At the end of the war in early 1865, the troops of General [[William Tecumseh Sherman]] marched across the state devastating plantations and most of Columbia. South Carolina would be readmitted to the Union on July 9, 1868.
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 ===20th century===
 [[File:Some of the children who go to school half a day.jpg|thumb|Children workers {{circa|1912}}. Some children who worked in South Carolina textile mills went to school half a day and worked before and after school—and eight or nine hours on Saturday.]]
-Early in the 20th century, South Carolina developed a thriving [[textile industry]]. The state also converted its main agricultural base from cotton, to more profitable crops. It would attract large [[military base]]s during [[World War I]], through its majority Democratic congressional delegation, part of the one-party [[Solid South]] following disfranchisement of blacks.
+Early in the 20th century, South Carolina developed a thriving [[textile industry]]. The state also converted its main agricultural base from cotton, to more profitable crops. It would attract large [[military base]]s during World War I, through its majority Democratic congressional delegation, part of the one-party [[Solid South]] following disfranchisement of blacks.
 In the late 19th century, South Carolina would implement [[List of Jim Crow law examples by state|Jim Crow laws]] which enforced [[Racial segregation in the United States|racial segregation]] policies until the 1960s. During the early-to-mid part of the 20th century, millions of African Americans left South Carolina and other southern states for jobs, opportunities, and relative freedom in U.S. cities outside the former Confederate states. In total from 1910 to 1970, 6.5&nbsp;million blacks left the South in the [[Great Migration (African American)|Great Migration]]. By 1930, South Carolina had a white majority population for the first time since 1708.<ref name="info">[http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/us/south-carolina-history.html "South Carolina: The Decline of Agriculture and the Rise of Jim Crowism"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141210220713/http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/us/south-carolina-history.html |date=December 10, 2014 }}, infoplease (''Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia''), 2012</ref> South Carolina was one of several states that initially rejected the [[Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Nineteenth Amendment]] (1920) giving women the right to vote. The South Carolina legislature later ratified the amendment on July 1, 1969.
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 ===Federal lands in South Carolina===
 {{Main|List of federal lands in South Carolina}}
-[[File:Fort-sumter-from-battery-sc1.jpg|thumb|350px|[[Fort Sumter National Monument]], site of the first battle of the [[American Civil War]], in [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]]]]
+[[File:Fort-sumter-from-battery-sc1.jpg|thumb|350px|[[Fort Sumter National Monument]], site of the first battle of the American Civil War, in [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]]]]
 * [[Charles Pinckney National Historic Site]] at [[Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina|Mt. Pleasant]]
 * [[Congaree National Park]] in [[Hopkins, South Carolina|Hopkins]]
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 * [[Erskine College]] is a private, coeducational liberal arts college in [[Due West, South Carolina]]. The college was founded in 1839 and is affiliated with the [[Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church]], which maintains a theological seminary on the campus.
 * [[The Citadel|The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina]] is a state-supported, comprehensive college in Charleston. Founded in 1842, it is best known for its undergraduate Corps of Cadets military program for men and women, which combines academics, physical challenges and military discipline. In addition to the cadet program, the Citadel Graduate College offers evening certificate, undergraduate and graduate programs to civilians. The Citadel has 2,200 undergraduate cadets in its residential military program and 1,200 civilian students in the evening programs.
-* [[Wofford College]] is a small liberal arts college in [[Spartanburg, South Carolina|Spartanburg]]. Wofford was founded in 1854 with a bequest of $100,000 from the Rev. Benjamin Wofford (1780–1850), a Methodist minister and Spartanburg native who sought to create a college for "literary, classical, and scientific education in my native district of Spartanburg". It is one of the few four-year institutions in the southeastern United States founded before the [[American Civil War]] that operates on its original campus.
+* [[Wofford College]] is a small liberal arts college in [[Spartanburg, South Carolina|Spartanburg]]. Wofford was founded in 1854 with a bequest of $100,000 from the Rev. Benjamin Wofford (1780–1850), a Methodist minister and Spartanburg native who sought to create a college for "literary, classical, and scientific education in my native district of Spartanburg". It is one of the few four-year institutions in the southeastern United States founded before the American Civil War that operates on its original campus.
 * [[Newberry College]] is a small liberal arts college in [[Newberry, South Carolina|Newberry]]. Founded in 1856, Newberry is a co-educational, private liberal-arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) on a historic 90-acre (36 ha) campus in Newberry, South Carolina. It has roughly 1,110 students and a 14:1 student-teacher ratio. According to U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges, Newberry College ranks among the nation's top colleges in the southern region.
 * [[Claflin University]], founded in 1869 by the [[American Missionary Association]], is the oldest [[historically black college]] in the state. After the Democratic-dominated legislature closed the university in 1877, before passing a law to restrict admission to whites, it designated Claflin as the only state college for blacks.
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 South Carolina's [[State governments of the United States|state government]] consists of executive, legislative, and judicial branches.  The [[governor of South Carolina]] heads the executive branch; the [[South Carolina General Assembly]] heads the legislative branch; and the [[South Carolina Supreme Court]] heads the judicial branch.
-South Carolina is a largely conservative state. Since the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]], South Carolina's politics have been controlled by three main parties: the [[Democratic-Republican Party (United States)|Democratic-Republican Party]] in the early 1800s, the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] through most of the 19th and 20th centuries, and the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] in the 21st century. Since the mid-1990s, the [[South Carolina General Assembly]] has been controlled by the Republican party, and currently, eight of nine statewide offices are held by Republican officeholders and one by a Democratic officeholder.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Democratic Party |url=https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/democratic-party/ |access-date=10 June 2010 |website=South Carolina Encyclopedia}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Folks |first1=Will |title=South Carolina Democrats Finally 'Win' A Statewide Office |url=https://www.fitsnews.com/2023/05/15/south-carolina-democrats-finally-win-a-statewide-office/ |access-date=21 May 2023 |website=FITSNews|date=May 15, 2023 }}</ref>
+South Carolina is a largely conservative state. Since the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]], South Carolina's politics have been controlled by three main parties: the [[Democratic-Republican Party (United States)|Democratic-Republican Party]] in the early 1800s, the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] through most of the 19th and 20th centuries, and the Republican Party in the 21st century. Since the mid-1990s, the [[South Carolina General Assembly]] has been controlled by the Republican party, and currently, eight of nine statewide offices are held by Republican officeholders and one by a Democratic officeholder.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Democratic Party |url=https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/democratic-party/ |access-date=10 June 2010 |website=South Carolina Encyclopedia}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Folks |first1=Will |title=South Carolina Democrats Finally 'Win' A Statewide Office |url=https://www.fitsnews.com/2023/05/15/south-carolina-democrats-finally-win-a-statewide-office/ |access-date=21 May 2023 |website=FITSNews|date=May 15, 2023 }}</ref>
 At the federal level, South Carolina has voted Republican in every presidential election since the [[1976 United States presidential election|1976 election of Jimmy Carter]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=South Carolina |url=https://www.270towin.com/states/South_Carolina |access-date=10 June 2023 |website=270towin}}</ref> Both of South Carolina's [[United States Senate|senators]] are Republican. The most-recent Democratic senator to serve was [[Fritz Hollings]], who left office in 2005. South Carolina has seven representatives in the [[United States House of Representatives]], six of whom are Republican. [[File:SCCapitol0270.jpg|thumb|left|[[South Carolina State House]]]]As of November 8, 2022, there were 3,740,743 registered voters.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://scvotes.gov/results-statistics |title=South Carolina Voter Registration Demographics |publisher=South Carolina State Election Commission |access-date=March 2, 2023 |archive-date=June 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210611002649/https://scvotes.gov/results-statistics |url-status=dead }}</ref> In a 2020 study, South Carolina was ranked by the ''[[Election Law Journal]]'' as the 7th hardest state for citizens to vote in.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Schraufnagel |first1=Scot |last2=Pomante II |first2=Michael J. |last3=Li |first3=Quan |title=Cost of Voting in the American States: 2020 |journal=Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy |date=December 15, 2020 |volume=19 |issue=4 |pages=503–509 |doi=10.1089/elj.2020.0666 |s2cid=225139517 |doi-access=free }}</ref> South Carolina retains the [[Capital punishment in South Carolina|death penalty]]. Authorized methods of execution include by [[electric chair]] or firing squad.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Methods of Execution |url=https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/executions/methods-of-execution |access-date=2023-04-06 |website=Death Penalty Information Center |language=en-US}}</ref>