Race in the South in the Age of Obama
Usually when the NY Times writes about the South, and especially when they write about the Deep South, they end up resorting to stereotypes which are no longer representative of the what I like to call, "The Place Where People Talk Like Me."
This story is an exception and this story explains how an African-American Democrat has been repeatedly elected by a rural, conservative white Republican electorate. Along the way it gets at what's long been true about local politics around the country: when a race is a "friends and neighbors" election, the person with the most friends wins.
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