South Carolina Will Have a Black Congressman and an Indian-American Governor

And both of them will be Republicans.  First, Tim Scott will likely become a congressman in November:

Voters in South Carolina nominated a black Republican lawmaker for an open congressional seat Tuesday, rejecting a legendary political name and adding diversity to the national party.

State Rep. Tim Scott defeated Paul Thurmond, an attorney who is son of the one-time segregationist U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond. Scott, who won the runoff with 69 percent of the vote, is now poised to become the nation's first black GOP congressman since 2003.

Scott, 44, owns an insurance business and became the first black Republican in the South Carolina Legislature in more than a century when elected two years ago. Before that, he served 13 years on Charleston County Council and was elected chairman four times.

He's now the favorite in the coastal 1st District, which has elected a Republican congressman for three decades. He would become the first black Republican congressman since Oklahoma's J.C. Watts retired in 2003.

I wonder if Tim will get invited to join the Black Congressional Caucus? Probably not, since he's not a "real" black since "real" blacks have to be liberals. Besides that, if he was asked I'm sure he'd be smart enough to turn it down. GOP members don't need to waste their time with racist organizations.

For governor Nikki Haley won the runoff for governor:

Haley, a state representative, is the first South Carolina woman to lead a major party ticket and will face Democratic state Sen. Vincent Sheheen to succeed term-limited Gov. Mark Sanford.

“South Carolina just showed the rest of the country what we’re made of,” Haley told supporters in her victory speech.

"This is a great night for the thousands of people across this state who believed in this underdog campaign and the message of reform," she said.

She added that her campaign and supporters have a clear message to take to the general election: “We want a conservative government, and we want a government that is accountable to the people.”

Haley beat U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett in Tuesday's runoff, riding the backlash against the state's notoriously rough-and-tumble politics. She had come within a point of taking the victory outright on June 8. With all precincts reporting, she won with 65 percent of the vote to Barrett's 35 percent.

After facing a raft of accusations of infidelity and gossip about her faith and ethnic background, Haley told Fox News on Wednesday that she "refused to be distracted" by the drama.

"All it did was make me more determined, and I think it showed the greatness of the people of this state," she said, referring to her victory.

South Carolina also did a little RINO hunting yesterday when incumbent Republican Bob Inglis was ousted by Trey Goudy. Inglis ran afoul of the state's conservatives and they tossed him. A lesson for other Republicans.