post-racial my ass!

I absolutely disagree with all the people who have been saying that Obama getting elected means that racism in U.S.A. politics is a thing of the past. Take a look at this chart:

http://www.pollster.com/blogs/StateVotebyRace2.php



In Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi - notoriously the worst racist states in the Union - despite the debacle of the Bush Administration, despite the wars, despite the swelling deficits, despite the growing gap between the ultra-rich and the working class, despite $4/gallon gasoline, surging unemployment and wages in decline, Obama still won less than 15% of the white vote there.

Keep in mind that, when comparing average income, these states rank 45th, 46th and 50th, so there was no sensible reason that these white voters should have so strongly preferred the candidate who offered tax cuts to millionaires to the one who offered tax cuts for the working class - on the contrary, in terms of simple economic self-interest they should have been more pro-Obama than the national average.

I can’t see any other way to interpret the results shown on that chart except to conclude that anti-black racism is as vigorously purulent as ever among the pinch-eyed pro-Klan swine who infest these pestholes. And that this country will never be free of their foul influence until they carry their unbending racist fanaticism to their graves.