.ijbailey writes that the patchwork coronavirus response across the South, including in his native South Carolina, reveals persistent Old South attitudes still prevalent among some in his home state and region. | CNNOpinion
Issac Bailey is a longtime journalist based in South Carolina and the Batten Professor for Communication Studies at Davidson College. He's the author of"My Brother Moochie: Regaining Dignity in the Face of Crime, Poverty and Racism in the American South." His next book,"A Black Man in Trumpland: Why We Didn't Riot -- But Should Have," will be released by Other Press in 2020. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN.
My 15-year-old daughter Lyric noted how flimsy she thought the barriers blocking public beach access seemed. The aluminum barriers stood just a few feet high and could be felled by a brisk wind gust. It would be easy for just about anyone to climb over or walk around. They were placed up and down the oceanfront in South Carolina after Gov. Henry McMaster ordered public beach accesses closed. At that time, he declined to implement a statewide stay-at-home plan, giving us the distinction of being one of a dwindling number of states to not be under such an order. Issac BaileyThat has finally changed, sort of, with an only-in-South Carolina "home or work" order.
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