Welcome to…
Population: 4,600,000
Entertainment: the beach, whitewater rafting, hiking
Sports: no professional franchises
Famous Former Natives: James Brown, Andrew Jackson, “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, Melvin Purvis, Ray Allen, Ben Bernanke, Chubby Checker, Stephen Colbert, Joe Frazier, Kevin Garnett, Brett Gardner, Orlando Hudson,
Home to: Sassafras Mountain, Clemson University, Happy Cow Creamery, Sonoco, Fort Sumter
Random Facts: first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation in 1778, first state to declare its secession from the Union in 1860, nation’s leading peach producer and shipper east of the Mississippi River, the walls of the American fort on Sullivan Island in Charleston Harbor were made of spongy palmetto logs which helped to protect the fort because the British cannonballs bounced off the logs
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