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racism
Many of the anecdotes in the story were about Indiana. As the article mentions Kokomo was the site for the largest Klan rally ever. My grandfather was born in Muncie and was a pretty bad racist frankly. I got the impression from the article that it was mainly older people who came of age in the Civil Rights era and before who were the racists, not "kids" trying to be shocking. I suspect that is largely true. I remember seeing interviews before the PA primary with old white men in smaller communities who basically said they could never image voting for a black man.
Obama will struggle with the old folks living in all of those rust belt states. He better hope there are enough African Americans voters in the South to offset those losses.