(Actually, I guess it was today.)
I know that particularly with my previous comments in other threads about Georgia and southern demographics that I'm in danger of seeming obsessed with race, and I'm not really. It's just the Obama's candidacy is apparently allowing people to talk about voting trends and race in a way I don't remember them doing it before (or maybe we generally weren't that interested because we didn't assume it would play as big a role in the outcome as people are afraid it will for Obama). The article linked below suggests that a majority of White voters had not voted for the Democratic candidate since 1964, and that blew my mind.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/200...politico/13790
I would have assumed that the years that Clinton won that the majority of Whites had voted for him.
So, it seems like it's going to be very hard to accurately explain an Obama loss, assuming that it's possible for Obama to lose, as being attributable especially to racism [eta: against Obama in particular anyway] , unless the percentage of whites voting Democratic drops quite a bit.
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