Ya got yer Joe Wilsons, and ya got yer Jim Dements(ed), ya got yer Governor Romeo Sanford, and ya got all this teabagging craziness associated with South Carolina. It's not a new thing, its been around for a long time. One merely has to go to Civil War history to find this.....
James Louis Petigru,a native who opposed secession, sadly observed that South Carolina was, "too small to be an independent republic, and too large to be an insane asylum." (Pay attention, Texas, you didn't do so well as a Republic, either!)
See, its not a new thing.