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Number of black elected officials in South Carolina — 450
Number of black Republican elected officials in South Carolina — 2
8,400 African-Americans voted in the 2008 S.C. Republican presidential primary.
290,000 African-Americans voted in the 2008 S.C. Democratic Presidential primary.

Martin Luther King Jr. is turning heads near Interstate 26 in Orangeburg, featured on a billboard that claims the nation’s foremost civil rights leader was a partisan.

“Martin Luther King Jr. was a REPUBLICAN,” the sign reads.

Erected by a group called the National Black Republican Association, the sign has become one of the latest volleys in America’s disjointed conversation about race and history.

“I almost broke my neck trying to look at it,” said Katon Dawson, S.C. Republican Party chairman, who said he saw the advertisement Saturday while attending a conference in the area.

Though the billboard is “not in coordination with the South Carolina Republican Party,” Dawson said he applauds its message because, in this contentious election year, it highlights Republicans’ views that the Democratic Party traditionally takes blacks’ votes for granted.

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