Bill Clinton had made more statements attracting criticism for their perceived racial implications late in the South Carolina campaign and his role was seen as damaging enough to her that a wave of supporters within and outside of the campaign said the former President "needs to stop". قام كلينتون بالمزيد من التصريحات التي لاقت انتقادات بسبب إيحاءاتها العنصرية في أواخر الحملة في جنوب كارولينا، وبدا أنه يؤثر سلبا في صورتها حتى أن كثيرا من مسانديها من داخل وخارج حملتها طالبوا أن يتوقف الرئيس السابق.
A number of applications were made, but facing economic challenges, and later in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, most of these projects have been cancelled, and as of 2012, "nuclear industry officials said in 2012 they expect five new reactors to enter service by 2020 – Southern's two Vogtle reactors, two at Summer in South Carolina and one at Watts Bar in Tennessee"; these are all at existing plants. مفاعلين فوجتل بالجنوب، وهما في الصيف في جنوب كارولينا (ساوث كاولينا) وواحد في واتس بار بولاية تينيسي "؛ وهذه كلها في محطات قائمة وموجودة.