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It's been interesting to read how little pundits have been talking about the Plains states like Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska. States like Oklahoma and Missouri are almost *Southern* but without a large African American population.
It was fascinating to see Kansas go overwhelmingly for Obama while its neighbor to the South, Oklahoma, went overwhelmingly for Clinton. The two states share so much; yet no two bordering states have this wide a disparity.
The history of race relations in these two states seems to trump issues of gender here.
As a Native Oklahoman, I am convinced Oklahoma's difficult racial history affects the state's ability to *see* Obama as a legitimate contender.
I actually write about this in my post yesterday on The Weekly Rader: http://weeklyrader.blogspot.com/2008/02/reading-plains-close-look-at-oklahoma.html
