{"id":22906,"date":"2012-05-04T20:03:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T20:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=22906"},"modified":"2012-05-05T22:17:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T22:17:50","slug":"4-years-later-race-is-still-issue-for-some-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=22906","title":{"rendered":"4 Years Later, Race Is Still Issue for Some Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/04\/us\/politics\/4-years-later-race-is-still-issue-for-some-voters.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>4 Years Later, Race Is Still Issue for Some Voters<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"htttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2012-05-03<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sabrina_Tavernise\" target=\"_blank\">Sabrina Tavernise<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>STEUBENVILLE, Ohio \u2014 This is the land of die-hard Democrats \u2014 mill workers, coal miners and union members. They have voted party line for generations, forming a reliable constituency for just about any Democrat who decides to run for office.<\/p>\n<p>Certain precincts in this county are not going to vote for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Obama<\/a>,\u201d said John Corrigan, clerk of courts for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jefferson_County,_Ohio\" target=\"_blank\">Jefferson County<\/a>, who was drinking coffee in a furniture shop downtown one morning last week with a small group of friends, retired judges and civil servants. \u201cI don\u2019t want to say it, but we all know why.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A retired state employee, Jason Foreman, interjected, <strong>\u201cI\u2019ll say it: it\u2019s because he\u2019s black.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For nearly three and a half years, a black family has occupied the White House, and much of the time what has been most remarkable about that fact is how unremarkable it has become to the country. <strong>While Mr. Obama will always be known to the history books as the country\u2019s first black president<\/strong>, his mixed-race heritage has only rarely surfaced in visible and explicit ways amid the tumult of a deep recession, two wars and shifting political currents&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/04\/us\/politics\/4-years-later-race-is-still-issue-for-some-voters.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 Years Later, Race Is Still Issue for Some Voters The New York Times 2012-05-03 Sabrina Tavernise STEUBENVILLE, Ohio \u2014 This is the land of die-hard Democrats \u2014 mill workers, coal miners and union members. They have voted party line for generations, forming a reliable constituency for just about any Democrat who decides to run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,6,26,20],"tags":[2640,260,10078,2327],"class_list":["post-22906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-new-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-new-york-times","tag-ohio","tag-sabrina-tavernise","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}