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• Thursday, January 24, 2008 10:15 AM

  Maybe Someone Else in the 107 Other Comments Already Said This . . .

  This story says a lot more about how eagerly the MSM has bought into the Clinton campaign's efforts to minimize the importance Obama's likely S.C. win by fostering the perception that it was all about race and that redneck S.C. whites ran to Hillary and Edwards because they were terrified by the uppity scary negro.

  Obama is not just running against two random white guys from out of state. He's running against the first woman with a shot, who's been consistently outpolling the other two among less educated white women, and a guy who was born there who won the state in 2004.

  The fact is, if you're white and are still a Democrat in the South these days, it ain't because you're a racist yaller dawg who didn't get the memo that Johnson sold the party out to them and the Republican party was now the true spiritual home of the Sons of the Confederacy. If you're white, and still a Democrat, in South Carolina today, its mostly because you're actually a liberal. I don't think these folks are supporting Hillary and Edwards in slightly disproportionate numbers because of Obama's race. I think they actually just perfer Hillary, either because of her gender or because they're typical Democratic activists who think we're having an election for a technocrat in chief or Edwards, because he's a local boy whose daddy was a mill guy just like them who is down on the rich people.

  If Obama gets the nomination, he may not get many white Republican votes, but to suggest he won't get the votes of the state's white Democrats is the worst kind of stereotyping.

  —NCSteve Read NCSteve's other letters
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