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In reply to the discussion: Want to know why Obama is hated so much in the South? See 12 Years a Slave [View all]VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)Southern Whites are very in your face with thier racism...in fact I was in Florence the day after Obama won the election...you could cut the tension with a knife...the Whites were completely freaked out!
I had a number of them tell me that they felt sorry for me supporting Obama "because he was never going to get White people to vote for him..."
I also had numerous conversations that ended in "oh well he will be assassinated in office if he does"
I was also in SC around a campfire when I mentioned GW Bush's escapade into Iraq was wrong....and got spit in my face!
So don't blow smoke about how nice the Southerners are....They still think the South WILL rise again.
I notice that Confederate flag still flies in front of the Capital of South Carolina....why is THAT you think?
Why do they celebrate "Confederate Memorial Day" as a response to Martin Luther King's Holiday? Because the Whites there were insulted by MLK day...