Blog: Charleston

Last month, I visited Charleston for the Democratic debate. Here are my thoughts on the debate itself. The next day, I got to walk around historic Charleston. It has some beautiful old Southern houses, and some great commercial streets with historic brightly colored townhouses. For a small city, it has some pedestrian activity in the evenings, though the jobs aren't downtown except for those around tourism, so during the day the city is very quiet.

I also noticed (but couldn't get good pictures) that when you get just a short ways outside the city, the buildings deteriorate very quickly to run-down warehouses with poorly maintained sidewalks. The neighborhoods change from rich and white to poor and black quite quickly (and then surrounded by suburbs).