Word: charlestonians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little over a century ago, as the South Carolina convention was meeting in Charleston to vote for secession, James Louis Petigru, a native Charlestonian, was stopped by an out-of-owner who asked the way to the city insane asylum. "I don't know which insane asylum you're looking for," Petigru replied and, pointing to the building in which the convention was meeting, continued, "but the one with the most lunatics is right over there...
...internal organ which, in every red-blooded Charlestonian, beats quicker when the band strikes up Dixie...