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Myrtle Beach Sun News:

Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin endorsed congressional candidate Tim Scott in a post on her Facebook page Saturday afternoon, the latest sign of growing national interest in the contest between the black state lawmaker and the son of one-time segregationist Strom Thurmond.
Tuesday's runoff election between Scott and Charleston County Councilman Paul Thurmond has attracted increasing media attention as a possible indicator of both racial progress in the South and the GOP's ability to diversify, though neither the candidates nor many local voters have framed the contest in those terms.

Scott, already South Carolina's first black Republican legislator in a century, has a shot at changing that, but first he has to beat Thurmond, whose father ran for president as a Dixiecrat on a segregationist platform six decades ago.
Scott, a 44-year-old who runs an insurance business, got more than 30 percent of the vote in the nine-way primary June 8. Thurmond, 34, got about half that, but there's a runoff Tuesday because no one got more than 50 percent.

Scott is one of three black Republican congressional hopefuls in runoffs nationwide. Five have won their party nominations outright, and several others are expected to.
But Scott said he's focused on issues, not race or history.
"My father said that thefuture is more important than the past," Scott said. "We should be appreciative of our heritage but at the end of the day it's more about tomorrow - can America sustain $13 trillion in deficit?"
Paul Thurmond echoed that, saying: "It's not about the color of our skin - it's about our background and our message. Tim has not run on the color of his skin, and I have not run on my father's name."....(Snip)


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January 15, 2009 — Rep. Tim Scott the first Republican African American member of the SC House since reconstruction speaks to RNC members in Myrtle Beach, SC
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