{"id":29626,"date":"2024-01-11T14:05:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T19:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=29626"},"modified":"2024-01-11T14:08:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T19:08:02","slug":"oneill-adds-historical-context-in-article-about-upstate-electorate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/oneill-adds-historical-context-in-article-about-upstate-electorate\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Neill adds historical context to article about Upstate electorate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an article published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/politics\/upstate-south-carolina-pickens-presidential-primary-election\/article_9860a95e-2a35-11ee-b57c-27afb48c6644.html\">The Post and Courier<\/a>, Furman University&#8217;s Stephen O&#8217;Neill gives historical context to voting behaviors in Upstate South Carolina. O&#8217;Neill, a Furman alumnus and professor of history, goes on record about how Greenville and Spartanburg have reinvented themselves in the wake of the now defunct textile industry, which gave way to a surge in manufacturing investment. He also comments on the historical shifts in voter representation in the state. Learn more in Macon Atkinson&#8217;s Report for America piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History Professor Stephen O&#8217;Neill sheds light on why Upstate voters vote the way they do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":29629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,42,6,116],"tags":[2485,2484,1899,1853,582,2488,496,2487,1855,2486],"class_list":["post-29626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-history","category-in-the-news","category-the-post-and-courier","tag-christian-values","tag-conservatives","tag-election-2024","tag-gop","tag-greenville-county","tag-pickens-county","tag-republicans","tag-spartanburg-county","tag-trump","tag-upstate-voters"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}