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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.

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  • Thursday, September 11, 2008 09:07 PM

    Oh lord this racism (and ignorance and it's apologists) ...

    ... is killing me inside.

    "not someone I can personally relate to"

    "not our kind of people"

    "privileged"

    "A lot of people around here just haven't spent much time with black people. When they get to know a black person, it's OK."

    "Obama's fate in November may in part depend on his ability to better familiarize the more insular segments of white America with an under-reported but growing post-civil rights demographic: the well-educated black urban middle class."

    This is tiring.

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