Talk:Midlands of South Carolina

Map

Someone should add a map that highlights the counties listed as belonging to the midlands. - SCgatorFan 22:57, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Merge Proposal

I do not think that this article should be merged with Columbia, South Carolina metropolitan area. Please see pages 104 and 105 in the book South Carolina and the American Revolution. It is clear that this author considers there to be three distinct parts of the state. The Lowcountry, the midlands and the upcountry (upstate). This is a reliable source for the existence names for three areas. I think that this should be its own article. - ¢Spender1983 (talk) 01:37, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Oppose proposed merger. According to the article the Midlands includes 8 counties. while the metropolitan area includes only 6. clariosophic (talk) 11:11, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Oppose proposed merger. The midlands, though centered with Columbia, is teached in schools as a regional area of the state and not as a census area. Ask any Carolinian where the Midlands are and you'll get a straight answer; ask what makes up the Columbia Metro and you'll get wild answers. I myself grew-up knowing the three areas of South Carolina: Lowcountry, Midlands, and the Upstate. -WashuOtaku (talk) 23:30, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Washuotaku, when you were growing up, did they teach you that these three regions covered the whole of South Carolina? I ask because from what maps I've seen of the three regions, they clearly do not cover the whole state. Most of the East half of the state is not in any of these regions, and that includes the major cities of Charleston and Myrtle Beach. Why would South Carolinians talk about only three regions of the state when those three regions only cover part of the state? Inkan1969 (talk) 19:17, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

List of Midlands Counties

Is there some source to back up this particular list of counties that are considered part of the "Midlands". Why these counties and not others? In particular, how come Newberry County is not considered part of the Midlands? Inkan1969 (talk) 19:17, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

It does seem odd that Newberry county's towns are listed, but not the county itself. Probably the result of multiple editors, but we need to be consistent with ourselves.155.213.224.59 (talk) 12:52, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

This government-supplied list includes many more counties in the Midlands, and divides the state into Upstate, Midlands (which includes Newberry), and Lowcountry: http://sc.gov/Government/Local/Pages/default.aspx But I've seen another list which divides the state into Piedmont, Pee Dee, Midlands, and Lowcountry. From Wikipedia's Pee Dee article, it looks like most of the counties which aren't consistent in terms of what region they're listed in, are listed in either Pee Dee or Midlands. Perhaps updating the Midlands article to a similar format as the Pee Dee article (in particular, the Always Included, Usually Included, and Rarely Included sections) might be useful. Gmporr (talk) 16:52, 8 October 2016 (UTC)