Letters to the Editor
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Joan, you're right, and you're wrong
Appalachia is full of racists and homophobes, it's true. It's not elitist to state this simple fact. It doesn't always have to be this way, either. It's not city liberals who keep these people down by pointing out the level of bigotry that infests these areas. Elitism is George Bush and the Republicans who take away their jobs, cut their education subsidies, and ship their boys overseas to die in a war so that oil companies and their cronies can control the region for decades to come. Elitism is "Fuck you, you white trash scum!" as elitism does, and it's the Republicans who have screwed them over, not us in the Democratic Party.
Obama DOES need to campaign in these areas, driving home the fact that it's the Republicans who have screwed these people over. Obama needs to link the war, with the economy, and link both with McCain. That's all he needs to say to these voters.