In the Washington Post Weekly, 28se-04oc, there is an earnest 1-page article on how important racism is in South Carolina politics.  The Post has chosen to illustrate it with a photograph taken in a restaurant in Orangeburg, SC, of a white waitress (more precisely, a pink waitress with blond hair) serving two black customers (more precisely, two brown customers with gray hair) at a table.

It seems that the importance of racism in South Carolina, whatever it may be, has decreased about two orders of magnitude in my lifetime.