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I live in the upstate of South Carolina and i'm very familiar with the local snakes, but yesterday i found a snake that had been ran over at my work. The snake was about 20 inches long and was shaped just like a black racer, but it wasn't black at all. The entire top half of its body from nose to tail was a bright blue color (Windex blue)with its belly being completely white. Can anyone help me figure out what kind of snake this was??? Thanks!!!

Sounds like a Rough Green snake.

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Greens after death can turn bluish. As for the venter it too will fade from it's normal yellow.

Frank
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"The luxury of not getting involved departed with the last lifeboat Skipper..."

definitely a rough green, they lose thier coloration and turn blue when they die....took me a while to figure this one out too whenever i came across my first one a few years ago

in S.Fla. we have a Coluber Constricter(racer)that we called a blue racer same as the black but was a gray /blue.
btw i saw a black racer on my road yesterday being bombarder my mockingbirds good thing i brake for snakes cause the birds slowed him down a bit.L8r Chris