re: Why is South Carolina so overrated?

A bit of history for you on the 2 dollar bill

Before football and basketball, boxing and horse racing commanded the American sports spectrum. In an age before computers and automated tote tickets the tickets were printed in advance and color coded by denomination. While a 5 and 10 dollar bet at the track is no big deal that might have correlated to a 50 or 100 dollar bet in the early part of the last century.



Quite literally the 2 dollar bill was in place to place bets at tracks across America and the 2 dollar bill was quite common as was the term "2 dollar bettor" was generally well known in the American lexicon of the time. As an aside you may not know, the 2 dollar bill was also generally issued as a demand note for silver - I still have several in a safe deposit box - so you could demand from the government the equivalent in silver from the US government.

The correct term is "queer as a 3 dollar bill" for kids who do not know the real history of the term.