internet at home. i think i m in touch with the school district and i asked them what was the adoption rate of clarendon county school district number one, the home of scotch branch high school. and they told me that only 34% of the students in their school district had the internet. that means that over 60%, about 60% do not have the internet. now ladies and gentlemen, clarendon county school district number one is where brown versus board of education all started. we worked together as a people to get rid of separate but equal. but if we do not do something to
this country still live in the south. basically in rural communities. many of which i represent here until the congress. i always maintained that the reason we have these crises in our cities is because we have never had a successful rural development program going in the country. we have people in rural communities that will remain in those communities if we carried opportunities to them. that s what infrastructure is all about. i ve been listening to the president talk about infrastructure, big, giant infrastructure program. well, an infrastructure program for me is more than roads and bridges. it s about water. it s about sewage. it s about broadband connection. it is about saying to those kids at scotch branch high school were brown versus board of education all started, even today there are less than 40%