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Posted by Peter Rosa on Fri Nov 14 12:46:20 2008, in response to Re: 2008 Election Map by County, posted by AlM on Fri Nov 14 11:12:13 2008. Arkansas I don't know, perhaps it has something to do with Bill and Hillary Clinton's rather tepid support for Obama. No idea about Tennessee.To put it as politely as possible, these are states where there are quite a few people who are neither economic/fiscal nor social conservatives but are still uncomfortable with the idea of a President who is not white. I don't know ... racial tensions were never quite as high in Tennessee as in some other Southern states. It was not a big slaveowning state, was late to join the Confederacy and retained strong pro-Northern sentiments during the war, and for the most part had few of the major civil rights struggles and incidents during the 1960's. Also, while I'm not as certain, I don't believe the Jim Crow laws were enforced quite as rigorously in Tennessee as in most other places in the South. My LIRR/NYCT blog |
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