Editing Carolina shag (section)

==History==

The term "Carolina shag" is thought to have originated along the Atlantic Ocean in Cherry Grove Beach, South Carolina during the 1940s.  According to [[Bo Bryan]], a Carolina shag [[historian]] and resident of [[Beaufort County, South Carolina|Beaufort County]], the term was coined at [[Carolina Beach, North Carolina]]. The Carolina shag is a descendant of Carolina Jitterbug, and its predecessor, Little Apple, which was the white version of the [[Big Apple (dance)|Big Apple]] (whose origins can be traced to Columbia, South Carolina in 1937) after whites sat (after "jumping the [[Jim Crow]] rope") in the balconies in the black clubs to watch the dancing.<ref>''Shag: The Legendary Dance of the South'', [[Bo Bryan]], 1995, 120 pages, {{ISBN|0-9648084-0-4}}</ref>