Correlation is not necessarily causation, but it is getting harder and harder to ignore the obvious. The one interpretation that best explains all these observations is racism. White/Southern/Republican/Conservatives simply do not like folks who are just not like them. I guess they fear that if when THOSE PEEPLE achieve a majority and take power, colored folks are going to treat white folks the same way white folks have traditionally treated colored folks for the last 400 years. Tradition, heritage, culture...and race are what its really all about after all. Of course, those of you who are actually from the South already know this, don't you?

Sometimes circumstantial evidence is hard to dismiss, like when you find a trout in the milk.