No. That's low country family power. However, it's falling apart.
I know that historically the low country and high country dislike each other. I also drove through SC back in May and you constantly hear them refer to themselves as low country, whether in announcing a radio station or just on the billboards or whatever. I guess that's a big cultural divide in SC?
If so, are you implying that there are powerful corrupt families in the low country as a matter of course?
Also, is the low country also called the tidewater, or is that a North Carolina term?