Word: charlestoning
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...break the Solid South again in 1940. Too soon it was to judge the practical force of Willkie sentiment stirring in the South. But there were seeds of a revolt against entrenched politics. To Wendell Willkie went hundreds of telegrams from Southern Democrats (see p. 14). In Richmond, Charleston, Atlanta, in Texas, Alabama, Florida, Arkansas, Tennessee, Willkie clubs sprang up overnight, formed by lifelong Democrats to back a Republican candidate...
...Charleston, S. C., last week a group of Willkiecrats announced that they will form a fusion party, support Democratic candidates for local office, Republican Presidential electors. New Deal-hating Editor William Watts Ball, son of a Confederate Army officer, announced himself for Willkie in the Charleston News & Courier...
Also for Willkie was the Charleston Post...
...island coves and inlets Pirates Morgan, Stede Bonnet and "Black-beard" Teach once lay in wait to raid New World shipping. From the Bahamas, Jamaica and Martinique, Civil War blockade runners made their night-bound, fog-shrouded dashes to Charleston and Wilmington. And in 1898, the Caribbean was invaded by an inept Spanish Fleet. It had the U. S. Atlantic seaboard in a dither of fright until old Admiral Cervera holed up in Santiago, Cuba, finally came out to have his ships shot down like ducks in a shooting gallery by a U. S. Fleet which was short on strategic...
...British Fleet would have to use U. S. bases from Portsmouth to Charleston, possibly on down to the Canal Zone...