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PALMETTO STATE AREA: 80,582 sq km (31,113 sq mi). POPULATION: 3,664,000. CAPITAL: Columbia, pop. 98,800. ECONOMY: Industry: textile goods, chemical products, paper products, machinery, tourism. Agriculture: tobacco, poultry, cattle, dairy products, soybeans, hogs. PCI: $17,700. ADMISSION: 8th of 13 original states.
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Rice, indigo, and cotton cultivated by a large slave population enriched tidewater planters before 1860. Shattered by the Civil War, which raged from 1861-65, South Carolina came to depend on textile goods and tobacco. Historic Charleston, battered by Hurricane Hugo in 1989, evokes the Old South. Retirement communities and resorts such as Myrtle Beach and Hilton Head line the fast-developing seacoast. Since 1984 incentive programs in public schools have rewarded educational excellence.
Text source: National Geographic Atlas of the World Revised Sixth Edition, 1995
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