First in the South
First in the South Every four years presidential hopefuls and the national media travel the primary election circuit through Iowa and New Hampshire. Historically Iowa and New Hampshire have dominated…
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First in the South
Every four years presidential hopefuls and the national media travel the primary election circuit through Iowa and New Hampshire. Historically Iowa and New Hampshire have dominated the news because they are first, not because of their predictive ability or representativeness. Once the dust settles in these states, the nation's focus turns to South Carolina, the first primary in the delegate-rich South.
Gibbs Knotts and Jordan M. In First in the South, H. Ragusa make the case for shifting the national focus to South Carolina because of its clarifying and often-predictive role in selecting presidential nominees for both the Republican and Democratic Parties.To establish the foundation for their claim, Knotts and Ragusa begin with an introduction to the fundamentals of South Carolina's primary.
They then detail how South Carolina achieved its coveted "First in the South"