Why don't those hillbillies like Obama? [“Mountain people have long been considered exotic.”]

Salon ^ | May 20, 2008 | By Dee Davis

[johnny7]

WHITESBURG, Ky. -- In analyzing the returns from last week's West Virginia Democratic primary, a phalanx of reporters and commentators have explained Hillary Clinton's landslide victory by pointing out that West Virginians are a special set of Democrats, white, low income and undereducated.

[johnny7]

The eminent British historian Sir Arnold Toynbee described the residents of Appalachia in 1947 as "the American counterparts of the latter-day white barbarians of the Old World -- Rifis, Albanians, Kurds, Pathans, and Hairy Ainus."

[techcor]

Hairy Ainus

??? I think they might object to being called a "Hairy Ainus".

[Graybeard58]

Could be that W. Virginians and Kentuckians know B.S. when they see it.

[madison10]

...because country people have a modicum of common sense and see through the Emperor’s-New-Clothes Lies, THAT’S why they won’t vote for the Obamanation.

[Jonah Hex]

??? I think they might object to being called a "Hairy Ainus".

Sounds like a Jeff Foxworthy set-up:

Jeff: "Hey, Harry, how you doin'?"
Harry: "Just fine, ainus?"

[gunnyg]

Maybe they just had the good sense to not take the gubmint marxist education system seriously.

[Mercat]

My great grandfather was a sixth generation inhabitant of those mountains until after the Civil war he traveled to central Missouri with his youngest son after his wife died. He fostered his other 13 children mostly with his oldest children and lived with his civil war buddy and the man’s maiden sister in LaMonte MO. My grandfather then married into a family of refuges from the Irish potato famine. I’m guessing my great grandfather was less than literate but the Irish branch pushed education.

[TLI]

How Obama fares in rural America may, in the end, have to do with whether he shows up. In politics not showing up and losing are kissing cousins. Obama made three visits to West Virginia. In Kentucky, he limited himself to appearances in the state's two biggest cities, Louisville and Lexington. He didn't come to my part of the state, or try to make any friends in rural areas.

Mr Hussien dirty himself by actually pretending to suck up to white “hicks?”

HAHAHAHAHAHA! Flying pigs tossing snowballs comes to mind…

[TommyDale]

"Why don't these hillbillies like Obama?"

Ask this man:

[goldstategop]

LOL! West Virginia has turned Red in the last two presidential elections. Its full of conservative Reagan Democrats. Not your typical Obama voter.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Delta 21]

This one is actually pretty easy to figure out.

They are from Whitesburg.

Next question, Alex?

You knew it was coming.

[ArrogantBustard]

HAT’S why they won’t vote for the Obamanation.

Instead, they voted for the hildebeeste.

Of course, all the choices suck this year.

[Krankor]

He fostered his other 13 children mostly with his oldest children...

Does that mean what I think it means?

[Jeff Head]

'Cause they can smell a skunk a mile off.

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[Mercat]

hmm, no. His wife died giving birth to their 14th child. At the time he had several children, daughters, who were already married and some had children. He took my grandfather, then two and moved to Missouri, leaving the other younguns with his older children to raise. My dad remembers some of these aunts and uncles so they did keep in touch. Back then, men were not considered fit to raise children on their own. But the story was that them hills were full of those folks and their kin.

[sportutegrl]

??? I think they might object to being called a "Hairy Ainus".

Well he didn't say it to their face.

[Sender]

Having lived in West Virginia for a few years, I can tell you that yes, there are white, undereducated hillbillies out there, and there are also a lot of white, educated people who value patriotism and sovereignty and God. “Change” would not be well-received in West Virginia or Kentucky either, for the most part. There is a lot of respect for tradition, family and church. It isn’t just aversion to electing a black man, but rather aversion to electing a change man.

[Dust in the Wind]

If you mean 16+ children, maybe...

[Dust in the Wind]

I stand corrected

[Mr. K]

how old was he when he posed for that picture? Grey hair? he must have held LIFELONG BELIEFS in the KKK