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In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina, by Orville Vernon Burton. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Edgefield demographic patterns (age and gender structure, death and birth rates) were also remarkably like those of rural South Carolina as a whole. |
 | | Excluding the city of Charleston, Edgefield's statistical totals (of persons not born in South Carolina, fls, mulattoes, average farm sizes, proportion of landowners, proportion literate, proportion of improved acreage) were nearly identical to the averages for all rural counties in the state.[7] |
 | | Edgefield County, clearly defined politically, culturally, and economically, provides an excellent laboratory for gaining a sense of family and community: a microcosm of the wealth groups and institutions in the South, it is small enough for comprehensive study and large enough to reflect diverse social, political, and economic arrangements. |
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