South Carolina Singularities
- Adjutant general: The head of the state's national guard, the adjutant general, is a statewide elected official.
- Driving Under the Influence: South Carolina is the only state in the nation with mandatory videotaping by the arresting officer of the DUI arrest and breath test.
- Fire Safety Regulations: South Carolina is the only state that allows fire officials to sidestep a federal regulation requiring that for every employee doing hazardous work inside a building, one must be outside.
- School Buses: South Carolina is the only state in the nation that owns and operates its own school bus fleet.
- Strokes: South Carolina has the highest rate of stroke deaths in the nation.
- Cigarette tax stamps: one of only three states (along with North Carolina and South Dakota) not to require a stamp certifying state tax has been paid on tobacco products.
- Outdoor Sculpture: South Carolina is home to the world's largest collection of outdoor sculpture located at Brookgreen Gardens.
- Landscaped Gardens: South Carolina is home to the oldest landscaped gardens in the United States, at Middleton Place near Charleston.
- First indigo planted, 1671 by Moses Lindo, a Portuguese Jew fleeing the Inquisition
- First time a Jew was elected to public office in America, 1774. Francis Salvador was elected to the General Assembly
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