http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/11/08/obamas-problems-with-white-voters-are-mostly-in-the-south Comments On: Obama's Problems With White Voters Are Mostly in the South by Charles Mudede en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 18 May 2013 19:00:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by natedogg]]> Wed, 05 Dec 2012 22:39:34 -0800 The Stranger Posted by floater]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 20:56:31 -0800 The Stranger
Riddle me this, Hoss: why should the rest of the country forgive and forget what happened in the South fifty years ago while Southerners get to cling to a grudge that's three times as old? You can have it one way or the other, not both. Did I say fifty years ago? Excuse me, I mean two nights ago, as in that pretty little election-night display at Ole Miss. 

Yes, I know plenty of Southern white folks who are lovely, non-racist, Democratic voters. I know older white Southerners who still have traces of the racism they grew up with but who have managed to get over it long enough to recognize, twice, that Obama is the better leader. But you'll excuse the rest of the country if we're still a little jumpy in light of the *astonishing* news that still makes its way on the regular out of the lower right quadrant.

Please tell me you aren't one of those people who still call the French cheese-eating surrender monkeys or start goose-stepping and stiff-arm-saluting whenever something is German. 
Posted by Prettybetsy]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:48:47 -0800 The Stranger Posted by You Are So Full of Shit]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:13:59 -0800 The Stranger
I think Buddhists, at least, are less culturally required to believe several impossible things every day before breakfast than Xtians. As the culture wars cooled off, the Rs tried to shift focus from G, Gs and Gs to All Lies, All The Time in Ann Coulter's echo chamber. Without having to constantly undergo cognitive dissonance, maybe Asians are more reality-based and less willing than whites to accept this new version of conservatism, either.

OTOH, Southern bigot culture probably explains it best.
Posted by ScrawnyKayaker]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 15:53:36 -0800 The Stranger Posted by venomlash]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 15:51:13 -0800 The Stranger Posted by N in Seattle]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 15:30:39 -0800 The Stranger Posted by I.C. Deadpeople]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 15:16:19 -0800 The Stranger College graduates
People making more than $50,000
Anyone living in a suburb or less dense

Voted for Romney
Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:54:40 -0800 The Stranger
@5: Ha!

@6 It's true, some Southern racists have extremely affectionate relationships with "their" black folks (think Mammy). I've heard of somebody's grandmother in Nashville saying she wasn't a segregationist: she didn't care how close They lived to her as long as they didn't forget their place.
Posted by Prettybetsy]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:23:42 -0800 The Stranger http://caucuttcaucus.com/2012/10/31/the-…
Posted by SpecialBrew]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:17:50 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Pope Peabrain]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:12:11 -0800 The Stranger Posted by ScrawnyKayaker]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:06:26 -0800 The Stranger hatred directed toward the President from so many corners.

Which is not to say the South is any more racist than the North. Just quite different.
Posted by Laurence Ballard]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:04:40 -0800 The Stranger
I'm sure some of that is still present. You hear it when they say "I'm not racist, I have black friends!" They still feel that blacks are inferior and they're outraged that any other whites could feel otherwise.
Posted by Urgutha Forka]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:44:55 -0800 The Stranger
Ha! Ha! Racism.
Posted by Pick1]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:40:42 -0800 The Stranger Posted by blip]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:04:11 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Gern Blanston]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:02:23 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Sheryl]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:02:00 -0800 The Stranger Posted by TVDinner]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:57:57 -0800 The Stranger