Reply #27: I have no idea. Do West Virginians feel threatened by blacks? Lose mining jobs to blacks?

[Leopolds Ghost]

The only Appalachian-american I know grew up in a mixed-race big city
and moved back to the mountains. He doesn't seem particularly racist.
His best friend growing up was black. His friends might be another story...

This sort of upbringing would
seem to argue against the Race Chasm therory, except the opposite is
usually true -- hostility to integration and welfare and just about
any government program percieved as unrestricted to white homeowners
runs deepest among Democrats in mixed-race areas.