Friday, August 22, 2008

Southern Leader

Charleston.net: McCain leads big in South
Republican U.S. Sen. John McCain enjoys a 16-point lead — 51 percent to 35 percent — among Southern voters over rival Democratic U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, a new poll by Winthrop University and ETV shows.

4 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

No surprise there. It's really kind of sad in a way.

Jim Sande said...

That was my thought.

Glynn Kalara said...

I hate to say it but Nat Turner is never far from the surface of your average White Southerners thinking even now 175 yrs. later. The poison of racism runs deep south of the Mason Dixon line still.

Jim Sande said...

It would be interesting to do a study on these kinds of long standing hatreds as they occurred in different places and in different times even ancient tims. It would be to see how long standing generation to generation hatreds were resolved, it must have been resolved somewhere. How did the hatred die down. Somewhere there's a book on this, and somewhere in that book it worked and it wasn't because everyone was wiped out by war or disaster.