on one of the top recommends this day, "Is WV Welcome in Your Democratic Party?" (Something or other like that.) It is an apologia for the attitudes up there and a challenge for understanding. You may have read it already. That was a tough day today. Particularly if she was serious.

I think you just respond as "WWJD" as possible and let her remember as the days, months, years progress how you reacted. I have to think there was an element of "hate" in that; i.e., she knew that wasn't true and just wanted to say that out loud to somebody. You never know when and how good might break into a dark space.

stole that joke from Jon Stewart.  During Obama's appearance on his show, he asked him if that was his plan---to enslave all the white people.
 I thought for sure everyone would know was a Big Jokey----and Obama himself denied that he had that top secret plan in the works.
 And I might add---I phonebanked WV today, and even tho I didn't run into a bevy of Obama supporters, there wasn't strong resistance either. From all the publicity I didn't expect any Obama voters, but there were some, such as the nice lady who called him a "fine fella" and said she sure did already vote for him.  And even many of those who said they planned to vote for Clinton were very willing to listen and talk about Obama.  No real hate.  I am with one of the pundits who tonight said Obama perhaps should have spent more time there because I think he might have been able to make some serious inroads there.  And I also heard many people say even if they didn't vote for him in the primary they were definately voting Democratic in the fall.  

step."  A saying worth remembering at times like these.  Kudos for the good work you're doing.  You are making a difference, of that I'm sure, even if the progress is sometimes awfully hard to see.

racism and into complete stupidity.

but I have seen this before.  There are just some people that will never like him.  He could cure cancer and bring about world peace and they would still distrust him and not like him.  Fortunatly, they are in the minority, and most people will be able to overcome their initial feelings.  But for a small group of people, he will always be the scary black man.  Sad but true.

It's a set of poverty that has been caused by there never being jobs that paid well there. In Appalachia there were good paying jobs once, then NAFTA happened and the steel plants went to China...It makes for a far more cynical electorate.

...NM has had multiple cultural influences on the area for centuries...tolerance has arose by necessity...WV, not so much...

I was not raised in abject poverty.  We had food to eat and always had something under the tree at Christmas time and on our birthdays (well, not under the tree, then, but...).

But we were not well off.  I missed out on a lot of school trips and activities simply because a single mom with three kids had to prioritize.  But we were raised to be tolerant and open minded.

how backwards my own father can be...

He had a nice little career in middle management for a big corporation, but I don't understand how he thinks he can look down at a magna cum laude from Harvard law????

Was speaking more of the "hillary" demographics stating that working class whites making under 50k won't vote for an AA