Traveling companions
There’s some discussion on the net about whether Barack Obama’s defeat in Kenturcky really means a whole lot. Clinton supporters, obviously, think it means something. But Clinton’s Kentucky win was so lopsided because of one issue: race.
Obama’s problem was with these white voters overall. His greatest losses among whites, by 40 points or more, all have been in Southern states – Arkansas, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and West Virginia. Reflecting their discomfort with Obama, nearly half of Kentucky Democrats said they would not support him in a November election against John McCain, again similar to the result in West Virginia.
Look at Kentucky. This is a state whose Democrats won’t back their own party’s candidate because he’s a black man. So Obama will lose big in Kentucky in a matchup against John McCain. But Hillary Clinton won’t win there either. Why not? Racism and sexism are often traveling companions.
![[Mississippi truck]](http://shrimpandgrits.rickandpatty.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/mississippi_truck.jpg "[Mississippi truck]")
Naked women and the Confederate flag. Yee haw! This kind of voter will just as easily turn out against Clinton as against Obama when the opponent is a white guy.
May 22nd, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Nice “Gun Show” billboard up there…
May 22nd, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Would it surprise you if I said I took that picture yesterday on my way home from work?
May 23rd, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Not at all… I’m actually surprised he’s missing the trailer hitch and has no “truck nuts” in place if it.
May 31st, 2008 at 9:14 pm
I’m actually surprised he’s missing the trailer hitch and has no “truck nuts” in place if it.
I doubt my camera could have handled that level of redneck.
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:46 pm
well ya’ll can rag on rednecks all you want but with out us non of your would be able to eat your pussy vegetarian diets, And if your a guys who doesn’t like the naked girls on the back of his truck maybe we should cut off your nuts and hang em from his hitch.
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Vegetarian diets?
I have a sneaking suspicion that Zak up there has never visited this blog before.