Why are rural Appalachians so much more racist than other rural whites?

[Stranger in a strange land]

NY:

Tompkins is way wrong on that map

Why did NYC except Staten swing so hard Republican? I recognize that Bush was anathema there for cultural reasons, but he did have a 9/11 bounce in 2004, and McCain and (especially) Palin failed to connect in this region. But still...

[Stranger in a strange land]

NY:

Tompkins is way wrong on that map

Why did NYC except Staten swing so hard Republican? I recognize that Bush was anathema there for cultural reasons, but he did have a 9/11 bounce in 2004, and McCain and (especially) Palin failed to connect in this region. But still...

it didn't.  I just think the map is f***ed.  problem with the algorithm or something.

oh, ok. That new map makes a lot more sense.

[Stranger in a strange land]

It seemed that Obama had a problem among all Southern Whites, but the areas with minimal counteracting African-American populations and Blue-Dog Democratic establishment are where he did the worst.

yeah, even the non-Appalachian parts of Tennessee swung to McCain. Non-Appalachian Kentucky, curiously, did not however.

[Stranger in a strange land]

Why did Charleston County swing so hard to the Democrats? This was the first time since 1976 that we voted for a Democrat!

Maybe because its kind of a metropolitan city now and Obama did well in cities everywhere?

Urban whites sung 9 points to Obama: I guess bashing the cities is a bad electoral strategy.

[Stranger in a strange land]

While it is sort of hard (not impossible) to think of many other reasons to vote for Al Gore, John Kerry, and John McCain, obviously such a measure can only catch racist Democrats. Most other rural areas (excempting the Upper Midwest) already are Republican anyways.

Actually, it is a stretch, but each of those candidates did have one thing in common that their opponents did not... military service.

Draft-dodger Clinton won the voters he's talking about against war hero Bush.