Internet providers have left rural Americans behind. One county is fighting back

Congress is spending $65bn to connect the rural US to the world. Orangeburg, South Carolina, knows the stakes better than anywhere

Orangeburg, South Carolina, is not the middle of nowhere.

It's an hour south of Columbia. It's an hour and 15 minutes north of Charleston. It's an hour and a half away from Augusta. It's just country enough to be out of the way but tantalizingly close to somewhere.