clipped from: letters.salon.com   

Now I know it's not fair to extrapolate that to a huge degree and presume that some massive portion of the HRC camp supports her because she's white and Obama is black. But it's also false to pretend that there isn't a small but significant number of people who think that way.


I didn't want to admit that. I had previously defended rural America to a lot of urban types. I had gotten tired of the usual sterotypes about West Virginia. But I do think that this primary has illustrated more starkly that the new divide in America is not North vs. South but urban vs. rural.


At any rate, what matters now is that we go out there and beat the man who is soon to be the most dangerous Angry White Man (well, at least in the top five)--John McCain.