Little view on race and politics in the south
Macon, Georgia (AP) - With its painful history of slavery and segregation, it is easy to assume that voters white South meets Barack Obama, the country would be the first black president, but observers say simple assumptions about the policy of the Region would be a mistake.
Obama won only 25 percent of white votes in the Democratic primary in South Carolina 26 The number of months of January and was seen as evidence of implicit divisions of race and reluctance on the part of white voters to vote for a black candidate.
On the eve of the vote Tuesday on the front line, Obama, Senator Hillary Clinton, Georgia, 20 points refueling in part by strong coverage backs of black voters, about 27 percent of voters, after a Reuters / C-SPAN / Zogby International poll Sunday.
Southern States Tennessee and Alabama is also the vote Tuesday the election of Democrat candidate, November competition in the choice of the success of President George W. Bush.
But pastors and church leaders white or exclusively in the south of opinion researchers, and said that issues related to race for the Republican and Democratic voters are complex, are subjected to a subtle interplay of forces of change, defy simple analysis.
The South is the most conservative of the country and many whites worship visitors are concerned that the voting decisions on the basis of ideological convictions are often wrongly viewed as a race.
“Southern whites are very proud of Democrats on profits in relations between races and ashamed of their history,” said John Green of the Pew Forum on Religion in Public Life, said it was notoriously difficult to put the role of race in the voting.
“Southern evangelists say things like:” I have doubts about social welfare. “But people do not want to talk for fear of racist,” he said. Blacks are often seen as disproportionate beneficiaries of ‘Welfare state.
“Separated Hour”
A cliché underway in the church to the USA, that 11 hours on a Sunday morning this week is separated from most hours.
Half a century after the movement for civil rights legally assisted by the end of segregation in the south, many churches in the region are virtually all or black and white.
Pastors and religious leaders warned that it was an over-simplification to say that this situation constitutes a rejection of another race or race, solidarity and most of them historical or social .
Many churches want to uncover opportunities to improve the situation before and after are manifold, said several leaders of these churches.
“Obama is a wonderful person and it would be a great president,” said a pastor of a church while white LA, prefers to remain anonymous. An Obama presidency could help promote reconciliation, “he said.
Another leader of a church in Atlanta with almost no blacks have said they would be in theory, welcome, but only a few members saw the need to move the track, so that they can be welcomed.
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