Amazing. It's 2008, and an African American gets 43% of the white vote in Georgia.

[berni_mccoy]

in a Presidential race. This is an Amazing, Historic moment in U.S. History.

John F. Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. and all those who have worked for civil rights, past and present, would be and are all smiling today.

This is a great day to be an American.

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[thesubstanceofdreams]

1. Good post, but it's 2008

:hi:

[arcos]

3. LOL!! nt

[berni_mccoy]

4. DOH! You know, I'm still writing 2007 on checks...

[Radical Activist]

2. It really is fantastic. Especially in an old Jim Crow state.

Wow.

[jackson_dem]

9. Yup

[Spider Jerusalem]

13. Not as much as you'd think.

You have to consider the demographics: the population of the metro Atlanta area has doubled in the past 15 years or so; a sizeable percentage of that population increase comes from educated middle-class professionals, thanks to Atlanta's rise to prominence as an international city and home to many corporate offices. There's been a considerable influx of people to Georgia from elsewhere in the country; most of these are people with no historic ties to the pre-civil rights era South, and they tend to vote Democratic. The rural white primary voters are likely to be almost solidly Repuiblican, and probably voted for Huckabee.

[Blue_State_Elitist]

5. Among democrats.

[berni_mccoy]

8. Like it or not, racism was a bipartisan issue... there were racists on both sides, equally

And there were civil rights advocates on both sides too.

[depakid]

14. And against the hated Hillary

(not to mention the fact that Georgia DRE results are inherently untrustworthy)

[Exultant Democracy]

6. And this is just the warm up.

[Crabby Appleton]

7. wouldn't that be 43% of the dem white vote, 0% of the repubs

[berni_mccoy]

10. See my response #8 above.

[totodeinhere]

12. Well yes, Repugs can't vote in GA primary.

But Obama would get a lot more Repug votes in the general election than Clinton would. Virtually every poll indicates this.

[Rosemary2205]

15. Not necessarily - Georgia has open primaries.

Though I highly doubt the same folks who submarined Max Cleland would now vote Obama. :)

[ursi]

11. it is a historic and emotional thing ...I remember being a small child in Georgia

in the 60s and my ignorant know it all German immigrant mother pointing at "shacks" along this long country road and say, "look at the p*ck-a-n*nnys" and I didn't know she was talking about the black families I saw around the homes in the heat. I thought she was talking about a cry baby or something. It was horrifying being raised by a racist. Absolutely horrifying. She was a mean, arrogant woman ...I can just picture her refusing to vote for Obama today ...she came to America at a time when whites in the south really thought they were a superiour race ...it was shameful.

Go Obama!