Nikki Haley paints her hometown as a place where race was a reality, but not a limitation. But residents say racial divisions still exist.
As the only Indian family,"our little town came to love us, but it wasn't always easy," she said."Nobody knew who we were, what we were, or why we were there."the family to Bamberg, a town with a current population around 3,000. Her father took a position as a biology professor at a local college and her mother taught school before opening a successful clothing store.
There were challenges. A spokeswoman for Haley's campaign says when they first moved to the area, her parents struggled to find anyone who'd rent to them. Her modest childhood home was featured prominently in Haley's campaign video."It didn't take long for people to really get to know them and to realize what wonderful people they are," she says.
"Take it from me, the first minority female governor in history, America is not a racist country," Haley said, drawing robust applause from the mostly white crowd.Tony Duncan, a local Black business owner, is a few years older than Haley and remembers being in school with her older siblings.But, growing up in South Carolina in the 1960s and '70s, Duncan says race was always there.
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