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<div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn" data-testid="companionColumn-0"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-1lsv4am e6idgb70">ACROSS THE COUNTRY</p></div><aside aria-label="companion column" class="css-ew4tgv"></aside></div><div data-testid="ImageBlock-1"><div data-testid="imageblock-wrapper"><figure aria-label="media" class="img-sz-medium css-d754w4 e1g7ppur0" role="group"><div class="css-1xdhyk6 erfvjey0" data-testid="photoviewer-children-figure"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Image</span><picture><source media="(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 3dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 288dpi)" srcset="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/03/12/us/atc-sc-myrtlebeach/atc-sc-myrtlebeach-mobileMasterAt3x.png?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=1800"/><source media="(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 2dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 192dpi)" srcset="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/03/12/us/atc-sc-myrtlebeach/atc-sc-myrtlebeach-mobileMasterAt3x.png?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=1200"/><source media="(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 1dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 96dpi)" srcset="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/03/12/us/atc-sc-myrtlebeach/atc-sc-myrtlebeach-mobileMasterAt3x.png?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=600"/><img alt="Map of the United State. A red pin marks Myrtle Beach, South Carolina." class="css-r3fift" decoding="async" height="101" sizes="((min-width: 600px) and (max-width: 1004px)) 84vw, (min-width: 1005px) 60vw, 100vw" src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/03/12/us/atc-sc-myrtlebeach/atc-sc-myrtlebeach-articleLarge.png?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale" srcset="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/03/12/us/atc-sc-myrtlebeach/atc-sc-myrtlebeach-articleLarge.png?quality=75&auto=webp 600w,https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/03/12/us/atc-sc-myrtlebeach/atc-sc-myrtlebeach-jumbo.png?quality=75&auto=webp 1024w,https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/03/12/us/atc-sc-myrtlebeach/atc-sc-myrtlebeach-superJumbo.png?quality=75&auto=webp 2048w" uri="nyt://image/85f0cc81-77c9-5ab9-b284-43eb4073dc76" width="600"/></picture></div><figcaption class="css-gbc9ki ewdxa0s0" data-testid="photoviewer-children-caption"></figcaption></figure></div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn" data-testid="companionColumn-1"><div class="css-53u6y8"><div class="css-1vkm6nb ehdk2mb0"><h1 class="css-1ebc1nn e1h9rw200" data-testid="headline" id="link-51933359">For Canadians Visiting Myrtle Beach, Trump Policies Make the Vibe Chillier</h1></div><p class="css-7nag3i e1wiw3jv0">Canadians have long flocked to the South Carolina beach town. This year, many are offended by the president and threatening to stay away. </p></div><aside aria-label="companion column" class="css-ew4tgv"></aside></div><div data-testid="ImageBlock-3"><div data-testid="imageblock-wrapper"><figure aria-label="media" class="img-sz-large css-hxpw2c e1g7ppur0" role="group"><div class="css-1xdhyk6 erfvjey0" data-testid="photoviewer-children-figure"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Image</span><div class="css-nwd8t8" data-testid="lazy-image"><div data-testid="lazyimage-container" style="height:257.77777777777777px"></div></div></div><figcaption class="css-1g9ic6e ewdxa0s0" data-testid="photoviewer-children-caption"><span class="css-jevhma e13ogyst0">The boardwalk in Myrtle Beach, S.C. For decades, Canadians have visited the city in the winter months, giving the local economy a boost.</span></figcaption></figure></div></div><div data-testid="ImageBlock-4"><div data-testid="imageblock-wrapper"><figure aria-label="media" class="img-sz-medium css-d754w4 e1g7ppur0" role="group"><div class="css-1xdhyk6 erfvjey0" data-testid="photoviewer-children-figure"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Image</span><div class="css-nwd8t8" data-testid="lazy-image"><div data-testid="lazyimage-container" style="height:20.622222222222224px"></div></div></div><figcaption class="css-gbc9ki ewdxa0s0" data-testid="photoviewer-children-caption"></figcaption></figure></div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn" data-testid="companionColumn-2"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-9w1fbe e6idgb70">WHY WE’RE HERE</p><p class="css-798hid etfikam0"><strong class="css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10">We’re exploring how America defines itself one place at a time. At one popular South Carolina beach town, locals are hoping that Southern charm can offset hard feelings among Canadian tourists. </strong></p><hr class="css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0"/><div class="css-zera2v"><div class="css-p6m5rf"><div class="byline-container css-1e2jphy epjyd6m2"><div class="css-233int epjyd6m1"><p class="css-1xuzukf e1jsehar1"><span class="byline-prefix">By </span><a class="last-byline css-ojhyzr e1jsehar0" href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/richard-fausset" itemprop="name">Richard Fausset</a></p><p class="css-1xuzukf e1jsehar1"><span class="byline-prefix">Photographs by </span><span class="css-1baulvz last-byline" itemprop="name">Travis Dove</span></p><div class="css-1gqes1i epjyd6m0"><div class="css-8atqhb" id="enhanced-byline"><p class="css-1hyokyd e1wtpvyy0">Reporting from Myrtle Beach, S.C.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div><time class="ep4cyha0 css-18fdffg e16638kd0" datetime="2025-03-15T05:01:56-04:00">March 15, 2025</time><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The Southerners at the Myrtle Beach Welcome Center had brewed Tim Hortons coffee for their northern guests. They were giving away cookies adorned with maple leaves, and lapel pins featuring the twinned flags of Canada and South Carolina. </p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">It was Monday morning at the kickoff party for Can-Am Days, the annual ritual that honors the Canadians who have long bolstered the city’s tourist economy in the winter months. For more than 60 years, it had been the most easygoing of international summits: The local Lions Club would welcome Lions from Canada. There were garden tours and golf tournaments. In pre-internet days, the local paper would print the Canadian news.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Now it had gotten complicated and weird, a result of the trade war being waged against Canada by a capricious American president whose image is all over the Myrtle Beach T-shirt shops, his famous fist pump as popular as sea gulls and sunsets.<span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span></p></div><aside aria-label="companion column" class="css-ew4tgv"></aside></div><div data-testid="Dropzone-6"></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn" data-testid="companionColumn-3"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Along with brandishing ever-changing tariff policies — threatening, imposing, rescinding them — President Trump has repeatedly asserted that he wants to make Canada the 51st state, leaving many Canadians astonished and furious. Some have canceled plans to visit conservative Myrtle Beach, part of a <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/travel/canada-tariffs-us-tourism.html" title="">broader grass-roots travel boycott</a> that is threatening to put a dent in the $20.5 billion that Canadian visitors spend in the United States each year.</p></div><aside aria-label="companion column" class="css-ew4tgv"></aside></div><div data-testid="ImageBlock-8"><div data-testid="imageblock-wrapper"><figure aria-label="media" class="img-sz-large css-hxpw2c e1g7ppur0" role="group"><div class="css-1xdhyk6 erfvjey0" data-testid="photoviewer-children-figure"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Image</span><div class="css-nwd8t8" data-testid="lazy-image"><div data-testid="lazyimage-container" style="height:271.9555555555556px"></div></div></div><figcaption class="css-1g9ic6e ewdxa0s0" data-testid="photoviewer-children-caption"><span class="css-jevhma e13ogyst0">The chamber of commerce hosting Canadian travelers for a Can-Am reception at the welcome center in Myrtle Beach.</span><span class="css-14fe1uy e1z0qqy90"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Credit...</span><span><span aria-hidden="false">Travis Dove for The New York Times</span></span></span></figcaption></figure></div></div><div data-testid="ImageBlock-9"><div data-testid="imageblock-wrapper"><figure aria-label="media" class="img-sz-large css-hxpw2c e1g7ppur0" role="group"><div class="css-1xdhyk6 erfvjey0" data-testid="photoviewer-children-figure"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Image</span><div class="css-nwd8t8" data-testid="lazy-image"><div data-testid="lazyimage-container" style="height:257.77777777777777px"></div></div></div><figcaption class="css-1g9ic6e ewdxa0s0" data-testid="photoviewer-children-caption"><span class="css-jevhma e13ogyst0">Klig’s Kites, in a retail area in Myrtle Beach. was partially transformed into a Trump-themed store.</span></figcaption></figure></div></div><div data-testid="InteractiveBlock-10"><section class="interactive-content interactive-size-scoop css-kqcwdy" data-id="100000008526109" data-source-id="100000008526109" data-testid="inline-interactive" id="share-your-across-the-country-story"><header class="css-obecq5 interactive-header" id="interactive-header"><h2 class="css-4hk76s interactive-headline" id="interactive-headline">Tell Us About Where You Live</h2></header><div class="css-17ih8de interactive-body" data-sourceid="100000008526109" id="embed-id-100000008526109" slug="share-your-across-the-country-story"> <cript>window.registerInteractive && window.registerInteractive("100000008526109");</script> <cript> const metas = document.getElementsByTagName("meta") for (let i = 0; i < metas.length; i++) { if ([].includes( metas[i].getAttribute('content') + '' ) ) { const el = document.getElementById("share-your-across-the-country-story"); const header = el.querySelector('header.interactive-header'); header.style.display = 'none' } } </script> <div data-formdata="{"fields":[{"isRequired":true,"readOnly":false,"helperText":"","deletable":true,"fieldType":"TextAreaField","renderType":"paragraph","_id":3204,"id":3204,"attributeSlug":"f631b360beea5aa000d313e36_text","primaryText":"We're exploring the U.S. one place at a time. 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