Obama and Appallachia

Submitted by Net Monkey on Thu, 05/22/2008 - 10:27am

Very interesting report from Al-Jazeera. It's hard to imagine an American news outlet's report cutting so deep:

This is obviously an awkward subject. Hillary Clinton and her supporters haven't wanted to acknowledge that their ranks have, to some extent, been swelled by racism. At the same time, insofar as Obama looks likely to lose a substantial number of voters purely because of race that is a real, if unseemly, tactical objection to giving him the nomination.

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Submitted by Lance on Sun, 09/07/2008 - 8:39pm

This smoldering esthetic resentment, eagerly stoked by the GOP every fours years since at least Nixon, relies on the myth that us coastal urbanites spend all our time looking down our patrician noses at anyone who lives outside the city limits, and it's dangerous, divisive, and annoying as hell. What's more, as near as I can tell, it's completely backwards.

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