No, actually DF is an Upstate team.... kind of. DF is right on the 'Fall Line". In the southeast US, that runs from about Norfolk Va to Pensacola FL.Noble Savage wrote: ↑Wed Nov 16, 2022 6:39 pmOne more then I'm done.. the only ppl that whine are younger people. I can remember when Nobody wanted to play Lexington, Irmo, Sumter, Summerville, Stratford, Marlboro County, Spring Valley. And so on.
Dutch Fork is not a lower state team geographically.
Upper and Lower are made up words for a state Shaped like an inverted triangle with an east-we
miles and a north-south extent of about 225 miles.
Make the regions East - West see what u get
It is the break between the Piedmont (foothills) and the coastal plains of the the southern Atlantic states. In the early Crustaceous period it was the beach and then became the Atlantic plain when the now Atlantic Seaboard began to push up. So to Dutch Fork/the SC midlands left the beach and 'moved' inland.
If you take the state of SC and don't look at north/south or east/west, but look at the geographic shape of SC at a piece of pie/pizza.... the triangleish shape. Think of the fall line (the dividing line between the Upstate and the Low State) as how you would really want to share a single piece of pie.
Many people would share a single piece of piece of pie by making 2 smaller wedges; slicing from the point/tip back to the crust end.
A smart person would share that piece of pie by slicing it in half perpendicular to the other way. With 1 half being the tip half and the other being the crust end..... and saving the crusty end for themselves.
That division is the fall line. The fall line designates the Upstate from the Low State is a line that cuts through Columbia but runs parallel to the coast (or the pie crust) and NOT north, south, east, or west.
DF is on the Upstate side of that line. City of Lexington is firmly in the 'Sandhills' and the upper state, making it the 'old beach'. My father in law couldn't get much of anything to grow in that sandy yard he had there.
Another way to designate the fall line is how do the streams flow. In the Upstate the streams are narrow and fast moving. In the Low Country they are wide and slow moving..... I guess it all falls into to how you view Lake Murray for whether Dutch Fork is Upstate or Low State!!!