In looking at the per-county presidential election results on wikipedia, I see there's a giant hole for all the counties of South Carolina. It looks like this is the case for all presidential elections before being readmitted into the union. Why do we not have their data/why did they not report by county as nearly every other state did?
South Carolina continued to have the state legislature appoint presidential electors long after every other state had moved on to more democratic means. The lack of anything resembling party politics, outside of the major cities, along with the very steep property requirements to be elected (which often meant only a handful of men could even run for office for state elections) further hinders efforts to get solid data on public support for political issues in South Carolina. There were some indications of democratic reforms in the mid to late 1850's which were very narrowly defeated, but in many ways South Carolina politics more resembled the 18th century than the 19th.
