5:11 am on Sunday April 3, 2011
| Posted by Ken Hawkins
Could Tim Scott soon be Beaufort County's U.S. House Rep?
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With the census numbers in and redistricting on everyone's mind, a visit to Beaufort County by freshman Congressman Tim Scott, R-Charleston, has everyone wondering: What if Joe Wilson is out and Scott is in?
Speculation is high that growth in Myrtle Beach will have a new 7th S.C. Congressional district centered on the city, forcing Scott's district much further south, perhaps grabbing all of Beaufort County and forming a new "coastal district."
We've already talked about this idea before, but The Island Packet has just published some more musings on the topic; read it here.
The scenario they describe is flushed out in an old report (that has nice maps) over at The Cook Political Report; get that here.