Reply #137: You could probably find "black spots" in about every state of the union...

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According to this author, we've even had slavery under the cover by companies like U.S. Steel in the South right up until World War II on a broader scale and have had elements of it in other places since then even where they could get away with it. It was largely due to WWII and the GI Bill and the advent of farm machinery that made it so many companies and big farms didn't have to rely on slave labor to produce their goods in the South.

http://www.slaverybyanothername.com/index.php?section=1

And if they're so racist, why is Obama getting a double digit lead in the polls in the state now? Huh? Your rationalizations don't make sense. There's a reason that Thom Hartmann moved there from Vermont. I think the demographics there are probably very similar, and Vermont produced Bernie Sanders, are only "socialist" senator.

A lot of people in Oregon are cool because they believe more in community and protecting the people around it. They are looking to institute their own "right of people to have health care" shortly in some referendums/legislation coming up.

Sorry, but I don't believe trying to maximize my money from lobbyists and rationalizing they are OK, and hanging out with Rupert Murdoch as a candidate that is "crossing demographic lines" any more than Barack is. Hillary doesn't like us "activist crowd" and she's said so in so many words. That's not reaching out to even her BASE, let alone to other demographics. And if another demographic is defined as "someone who hates", then I'm sorry that's a demographic I don't prioritize.