COLUMBIA --- Gov. Nikki Haley signed a U.S. House redistricting plan into law on Monday that creates a new 7th District, saying South Carolina can send another conservative to Washington to combat the federal government.
The new congressional district is anchored in Horry County, home to Myrtle Beach, and stretches across the Pee Dee region in the state's northeastern corner. Redistricting is required every decade to make sure district lines reflect population changes. South Carolina picked up a seventh seat in Congress because of population growth. According to the 2010 Census, the state added more than 610,000 people -- a 15.3 percent increase, to 4.6 million people, becoming the nation's 10th fastest growing state.
Republicans in the GOP-dominated state expect they'll be able to win the new seat in 2012.
"In this day and time when we have a situation where we're dealing with the battles in Washington, we need as many conservative votes as we can get, and guess what? We're going to send one more to D.C. to fight for us and that's a great thing," she told a crowd at Broadway at the Beach in Myrtle Beach.
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