The South Carolina Republican Party and the South Carolina Democratic Party are the two major political parties within the U.S. state of South Carolina. The South Carolina Republican Party is an affiliate of the national Republican Party and has been the most influential political party within South Carolina since the mid-1900s.
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—Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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