Reply #162: Good point, living amongst only your own tends to breed racism

[ultraist]

Socio-economic indicators show that the gaps between blacks and whites are porportionately the SAME in northern states as they are in the southern states. In NY, the same porportion of blacks earn bachelor's degrees and make over $100,000 as they do IN THE SOUTH. (Both are gaps of approx 7% and 13%). BARRIERS to equal opportunity are JUST AS BAD IN THE NORTH.

I don't think racism is really that much worse in the South anymore. I think it's THE WORST in the midwest: Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, etc

I live in NC and we have more registered Democrats than Repukes in our state. The Kerry campaign spent very little money here. Had they gotten OUR PEOPLE REGISTERED AND TO THE POLLS we could have swung the state. 1.5 MILLION DEMOCRATS voted for Kerry. There was very little effort here to GOTV.

NC WILL BE A SWING STATE NEXT ElECTION and if the Dems write off the FASTEST GROWING AREA IN THE NATION, they are fools.

As far as Dean, he was pretty popular in my area especially considering this is Edwards hometown. I'd like to know if any NC DNC committee members are on this anti-Dean kick. It sounds like this guy is lumping all Southern Dems together to strengthen his position.

Dean is my first choice for Chair. He's is right, ALL 50 STATES from the groundup!