In the last election that brought Obama to the forefront of the world, his opponent Sen McCain did poorly throughout the country with the exception of the South, where the vote was divided down racial lines.

Back then it was analyzed to death but few really talked about it a a race issue, more like that Obama was too liberal for the mostly conservative South…..made good press but it was total BS!

I wrote about it then and was laughed at, but I said then and I say now that it was because Obama was an African-American had little to do with his liberal views.  The tale going around now is that the Repubs are a party of rural whites, mostly in the South…that is accurate.

But all that is old news…..but there is some more evidence of the racists in the South.  I live in the South and I can say that my intervbiews and analysis has shown that racism is NOT dead in the South.

As I have said there is more evidence of it…..the Birthers have jumped all over the citizenship thing, but beyond that the place that it has gotten the most traction is….you guessed it…the South.

A poll recently taken on whether the Birthers haver it right found that 23% said they believed he is not a citizen and 30% say thay do not know for sure.  That is 58% of the people either say no or they are not sure.  Of the other regions polled the South had the largest percentage that answered in the two ways.

I did not see a breakdown by age but if I had to guess I would saw that the people in the older brackets are the ones that say no or not sure.  This group, at least where I live, still hold the blacks as they were in the 50’s and early 60’s.

Racism is NOT dead in the South, the bigots just find  ways to talk about it without sounding like a racist….but a racist by any other name is still a……RACIST!