Top Hillary Supporter: Some Whites in PA "Are Not Ready" To Support Black Candidate

(Emphasis mine.)

Let them vote for Huckster.

She said she'll go with whoever is the Dem nominee over any of the current crop of repubs.

a woman either! If his comment was intended to say that sexism & racism is not dead, I agree with him! I'm HOPING that they are a minority now.

It's probably true as far as it goes. I don't read it as a coded message or warning of any kind. We'll see whether it ends up making a big difference to his numbers. Meantime, I see no reason for the Obama campaign (or us) to get in a snit about it - he's just describing what he sees as the political climate. Some may see it as an endorsement of 'not voting for a black man' because he didn't condemn it, but frankly I don't think that voters who dislike Obama because of his race were waiting for the governor to give them a feeling of acceptance.

In short, a non-story that we should not waste time or energy over.

Could he be projecting his prejudices onto the electorate?

Macaca redux.

more racist. I can believe this. I don't have high hopes for Obama in my home state.

I grew up in Allegheny County (Pittsburgh and suburbs) and what a lot of people don't realize is that entire area is comprized of "neighborhoods". There's Polish Hill which os mostly Polish, Squirrrel Hill that's mostly Jewish, little Italy, and the Hill District which is almost all black. I don't mean there's NO areas that there isn't a bit of a mix of cultures, but I think I was 14 or 15 before I ever saw a black person, my mother really frowned upon Italians, and both my parents spoke dispariagingly about the ONe MEXICAN FAMILY you would see on the street once in a while.

The younger people in Pa. have pretty much ignored all those OLD feelings, but you have to remember, Pa. ha the OLDEST population of any State in the Country! A lot of those old folks are still there (young ones move somewhere else where there are jobs) so a lot of those old attitudes are still there too.

black people on a regular basis was when I attended Pitt. Pittsburgh is full of little enclaves of particular ethnicities who are suspicious of other nationalities. I remember a friend's father saying he didn't like so-and-so, an acquaintance, because he was Serbian--Serbian! LOL! Who the hell cares whether or not you're of Serbian descent? Well, in PGH, they do--it's the only place I've lived where people routinely inquire about your ancestry. Polish, Italian, Irish, German, Serb, Czech--it all matters there for some reason. It's kind of a hoot, but not when it affects Obama's chances! :-(

I'm not saying that there aren't ethnic restaurants anywhere we've live, but most are not "real representations". I remember going to Max & Erma's on the North Side for real German food, or a great Italian place in Bloomfield. We've lived in SC, TX and now Ga. and I've been hunting for a GOOD potato pancake ever since 1987. Haven't found any yet!

You have to admit, most of the groups did get along though. I don't recall any fights, just suspicions of the unknown & misunderstood. It bothers me that here in the South, I can't really say that. There's still hatered of blacks, hispanics, and yankees...no matter what your background is!

to Georgia for a for a few years in the 90's and found the same thing.

pout numbers them. It's been that way for many years. I think it was mostly because of all the steel mills in Pgh, but they're all gone now. There still are lots of people who worked in those mills and familiey of those steel workers who are still STRONG Dems!

say anything, do anything...

change nothing.

Not :wtf: C L I N T O N ... read much?

already this campaign.

the boomerang effect.

:P