Reply #14: Here's an interesting tidbit from a yahoo news story [View All]

that appears to belie your prediction, at least in part:

http://real-us.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080109/ts_alt_afp...



"White, college-age kids in South Carolina are flocking to work for Obama, and this was happening before he became popular," said local historian Walter Edgar, acknowledging the lingering racial divide in this former slave state where blacks account for about half of Democratic primary voters.

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The state's black establishment had been firmly for Clinton, but Obama's win in overwhelmingly white Iowa changed the calculus for many.

"There had been this thinking that Obama was not electable. What that translates to is white people would not support him," said Bruce Ransom, an authority on South Carolina's black electorate at Clemson University.