This letter is associated with the following article:
Letters
Friday, September 12, 2008 12:00 AM

What small-town America is saying about Obama

In diners and mobile homes from New Mexico to North Carolina, I listened to working-class people try to make sense of a black president named Barack.
By Dan Hoyle

Read other letters about this article

  • Friday, September 12, 2008 10:05 AM

    A Smalltown Refugee's Take on Smalltown "Values"

    Cathy Arnst, a contributor to BusinessWeek's Working Parents blog, says she grew up in a town even smaller than Sarah Palin’s, a burg of 2,000 people in the Allegheny Mountains—an area of New York State officially classified as part of Appalachia.

    She eloquently writes about life among "intolerant, close-minded and hypocritical" smalltownsfolk here: http://www.businessweek.com/careers/workingparents/blog/archives/2008/09/proud_to_be_an.html

    —JillNYC Read JillNYC's other letters

    Flag
Read other letters about this article

Most Active Letters Threads

529

The crazy, irrational beliefs of Muslims

Tom Friedman explains the real problem: stupid Muslims think the U.S. is about war and aggression.
Glenn Greenwald Read article
431

The face of rotted Washington

Evan Bayh demands more debt-financed war - fought by others - while boasting that he's a stern "deficit hawk."
Glenn Greenwald Read article
190

Bigotry wins in Switzerland

By voting to ban the construction of minarets, Switzerland apes the most extreme intolerance in the Muslim world
By Juan Cole Read article
131

Facebook, the mean girls and me

At 34 years old, I finally feel like a popular seventh-grader. How sad is that?
By Taffy Brodesser-Akner Read article
104

Polanski moves from jail to ski chalet

The rapist director is granted bail, and one of his most vocal apologists celebrates
Kate Harding Read article

View all »

Letters Help

Currently in Salon