Editing Darlington, South Carolina (section)

==In popular culture==
Darlington was mentioned in the Bruce Springsteen song "[[Darlington County (song)|Darlington County]]", off his 1984 album ''[[Born in the U.S.A.]]''

Darlington is the home of Rawls 7, a "touchman" or [[information broker]], in [[William F. Nolan]]'s 1977 science fiction novel ''Logan's World,'' a sequel to ''[[Logan's Run]].''

A 2012 article in ''[[Small Wars Journal]]'' explored a hypothetical military operation in which an extremist group sympathetic to the [[Tea Party movement]] takes over Darlington and clashes with federal troops.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Benson |first1=Kevin |last2=Weber |first2=Jennifer |year=2012 |title=Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A 'Vision' of the Future |journal=[[Small Wars Journal]] |publisher=Small Wars Foundation |url=http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/full-spectrum-operations-in-the-homeland-a-%E2%80%9Cvision%E2%80%9D-of-the-future |access-date=19 November 2012}}</ref> [[Conservatism in the United States|Conservative]] groups criticized the article, suggesting it reflected misplaced priorities.<ref>{{cite news |title=Editorial: The Civil War of 2016 |url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/7/the-civil-war-of-2016/ |newspaper=[[The Washington Times]] |date=7 August 2012 |access-date=19 November 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=How the U.S. Military Would Crush a Tea Party Rebellion |first=Michael |last=Peck |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpeck/2012/11/15/how-the-u-s-military-would-crush-a-tea-party-rebellion/ |newspaper=[[Forbes]] |date=15 November 2012 |access-date=19 November 2012}}</ref>

The town plays a major role in the season 2 episode "The Darlington 500" of the NBC series ''[[Timeless (TV series)|Timeless]]''. In the episode, Lucy, Wyatt, and Rufus travel to September 4, 1955, to stop a Rittenhouse agent from destroying the Darlington 500 with a bomb, which would allow Rittenhouse to take over the American automobile industry.

Darlington is the hometown of [[Marvel Comics]] [[supervillain]], Zelda DuBois, [[Princess Python]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Princess Python Powers, Enemies, History {{!}} Marvel |url=https://www.marvel.com/characters/princess-python |website=Marvel Entertainment |access-date=13 January 2023 |language=en}}</ref> She first appeared in ''[[The Amazing Spider-Man]]' #22 in March of 1965, being created by [[Stan Lee]] and [[Steve Ditko]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wiacek |first1=Stephen |last2=Bray |first2=Adam |last3=Lee |first3=Stan |title=Marvel Encyclopedia |date=2019 |publisher=DK Publishing |location=New York |isbn=978-1465478900 |page=275 |edition=New}}</ref>