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Small-town America has always been more Republican than Democrat-oriented but to say in 2008 that someone is NOT is favor of "blacks" shows the hypocrisy and racism still existing in the United States. So you trust yet another war-monger and a "moose/wolf-hunting strumpet" (Who takes care of her children by the way?) because of your prejudices? Mind you this is coming from a white woman, first generation immigrant to the USA and who came there in the first place to no longer encounter the unjust stigma of being part of the post-Nazi German generation. (which by the way never happened, I was insulted most often over my 38 years as an American tax-paying citizen by American Jews who never suffered ANY loss or hardship at all while I did.)
Can rural America distinguish between hard-working black families with good values and the gang-oriented, drug-plagued inner-city folks?
And guess who brought the drugs into Harlem etc. in the first place and who were the slum-lords/store-owners in those impoverished areas? I well remember the Bronx in the 1970s and 1980s looking like a war-zone, worse than some of war-zones of today. Who profited from their misery and who passed the laws that the black families could no longer receive financial aid if there was a man in the house, eventually leading to the "projects" of un-wed mothers with children, fatherless homes and the disintegration of the black family which prior to that had been very strong?
Small-town thinking is not always marked by ignorance but in this case I would venture to remind all of America that the country is a MELTING POT, color, race, religion or sexual preference ought to stay OUT of politics. Take your extremist born-again Christian values to church where they belong and THINK who REALLY RUNS AMERICA in the 21st CENTURY - a large conglomerate of the super-wealthy, multinational CORPORATIONS and their lobbies. If you do not understand that, you are fooling yourselves and how!
