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.
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David Bositis, a senior political analyst at the Washington-based Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, cautioned against reading too much into what a Scott victory would say about South Carolina's progress. He said a black politician like Scott is more of an anomaly that an indicator of post-racial change in a conservative state where white politicians have made recent racist remarks about the president, first lady and a gubernatorial candidate.
"It certainly is a changing country in a lot of places in the country, yes," Bositis said. But he added: "South Carolina is not one of those places, not by a long shot."
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