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[quote=Anonymous][quote]  The south has far more Black residents than the north.  [/quote]

Not sure what point you thinks that proves -- there were many more Blacks in the South than the North during the slavery and Jim Crow/lynching eras, and that hardly suggested the South offered a model of race-relations during those eras -- but you can't even get your facts right, because the Black share of the population is higher in Maryland and in DC than in South Carolina, and while the percentage is a bit lower in Virginia there are in fact more Blacks in Virginia than in South Carolina as well.

Don't try to turn this into a culture war you're not intellectually equipped to win.    This is about the University of South Carolina, only.   It's a reputable flagship state university (#115 on the USNWR list), with some well-known programs -- that's all widely available information.    From a DMV perspective -- which is why people come to DCUM -- there are some DMV students who've gone there, been struck by a stronger streak of racist (and other bigoted) attitudes among the students than they expected, and transferred out.   People can try to minimize that actual experience ('they're snowflakes!') or engage in whataboutism ('what about racism in the North?' - well, the student cited in a prior post transferred to a college in the North and didn't apparently encounter the same issues) - but all that does is suggest that South Carolina is a university whose boosters ignore or try to minimize or rationalize away lingering evidence of racism and bigotry on campus.   Which is hardly an encouraging signal to those DMVers for whom it might actually be a consideration.

That said, some potential applicants might think, this is the right school for me, because of the programs, price, and admissions policy (or other factors), and I'm bound to find some like-minded people to befriend among the 35 thousand students in Columbia.   That's certainly a legit decision for them to make, but they should know that going there from the DMV is likely to be a greater culture shock than the university's carefully curated website suggests.           [/quote]

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