Is Ohio Really That Racist?
Just a quick observation from yesterdays election results. The only counties where Obama won were counties with a large urban core. Franklin (Columbus), Cuyahoga (Cleveland), Hamilton (Cincinnati), and Montgemry (Dayton). The only exception was Deleware County. What is even more astonishing is that Obama did the worst in the most rural/appalachain counties, recevice 20% or less of the vote: Galia, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, Pike, Scioto and Vinton.
So, I just wonder, what was this election really about? Issues, candidates, experience, change, race?
[edited for clarification]
So, I just wonder, what was this election really about? Issues, candidates, experience, change, race?
[edited for clarification]
posted by EF + at 9:22 AM
6 Comments:
Tough call. Without much other information to go on, I would say those two factors are quite related in the areas you mentioned. I would lean more toward the racist sentiment. Why would party lines have that much to do with elections within a single party?
You are right. I wasn't terribly clear. I fixed the post to clarify my question.
And sure, there are probably more issues involved, and I haven't looked much more, it was just more of a WOW thing. The election results in most states have been pretty close, but not in Ohio.
interesting, I know of several people that are ether registered democrats or voted democratic and voted for the candidate with the best chance of losing to McCain. And since McCain pretty much already won what was the point of voting republican. Although there most likely is some merit in your observation. I have head people say the Pickaway county is extremely racist.
yes. ohio is racist.
Perhaps, Eric, these are the same people who are so offended by the "anti-American" sermons by Obama's UCC pastor. As I've listened to the sermon excerpts (yes, even out of context), I am admittedly puzzled as to how he's actually wrong. Is Rev. Wright wrong in drawing a moral and behavioral connection between our history of (at the very least) morally ambiguous actions toward other people and nations and the situation we now find ourselves in. Perhaps this is just latent white liberal guilt. I am, by no means, a supporter of Obama, but as a white person, a middle-class person, and a Protestant I have absolutely no comprehension of what it is like to be at the receiving end of racism, classism, or religious discrimination. Of course, this is about race, religion, issues, etc. And "Change" in this context is really a meaningless, simplistic concept (It's like talking to a an athlete after a game. . . don't they all say pretty much the same thing after every single game?) I just don't have any idea what to do about it, because the prevailing and conventional structures, assumptions, and language that make up the current political discourse have backed us into a corner we can't get out of. Jfr.
To play the other card, could it that Franklin, Cuyahoga, Hamilton, and Montgemry couties voted for Obama based upon skin color (since we are one race - very little inheret racism exist today)? Did they vote for Obama based upon an ethnocentric values system instead of who the best canidate for the DNC is? Are you looking in the wrong direction?
Just doing my GOP duty.
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