These two guys talk after a Saturday breakfast at the Hardee’s in Walterboro, S.C. Across the South, fast food restaurants are taking the place of local diners where people have met for years to discuss community business and to gossip a little.
Walterboro, which has lost about 100 people since 2010, has a population of 5,309 people. 38 percent of whom live in poverty. Walterboro is the county seat of Colleton County, a Southern Crescent county split by Interstate 95.
Colleton County, which also has a small piece of coastline, is home to 38,153 people, 21 percent of whom live at or below the federal poverty level.
- Quickfacts on Colleton County from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Photo taken Jan. 4, 2014, by Andy Brack. All rights reserved.