When I lived in Aiken County, SC, we were also first in unwed teenager pregnancy.

That prompted a series of billboards that featured the statistic, along with the phrase "Be a man."

Wow... SC is like... 45 minutes from me, haha. I got married in SC... definitely have no intentions in ever moving there though. Too many rednecks for my tastes.

And how many people are actually going to be 'proud' the sign is up? I'm surprised it hasn't been vandalized or taken down yet.

Home sweet home. It took me about five minutes after returning to Clemson, SC from Chapel Hill, NC (a whole other world, really) yesterday to remember why I was so anxious to leave in the first place.

I remember that sign was up in Greenville off of I-85 for like a year. I'm pretty sure it's gone now.

I lived my whole life in SC, though, and I still love it even though I live in MA (and it looks like I'll be living here for a long time). It's an interesting contrast.

I love visiting SC, but since I fit in politically so well up here, SC is no longer my home. When I realized that, it made me a little sad.

Wow! My little image is getting around!

I was born and raised in Greenville, SC, and yes, that sign is pretty evocative of the political situation for women there -- I was a member of NOW for a year or so when I returned home from college in the early 90's (college in MA, evocative of Mary's situation -- I wanted to stay up there), and the group was...lackluster.

The sign is down now, has been for some time. I doubt the stats have changed.

Thanks again, Jessica. Hopefully we'll find out what Good Samaritan put it up, someday...

sadly, I have never seen this sign, though I have lived in Clemson for 3 years. I am a born and raised in the back woods of South Carolina and the sign definately applies to my hometown