Rednecks for Obama - I never thought I'd see the day
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081009/pl_afp/usvoteobamarednecks;_ylt=AqQEV8YlS86rEAOgiUzo8XCWwvIETony Viessman, 74, and Les Spencer, 60, got politically active last year when it occurred to them there must be other lower income, rural, beer-drinking, gun-loving, NASCAR race enthusiasts fed up with business as usual in Washington.
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Philistines or not, he said, most rural southerners are no longer proponents of the Old South's most abhorrent ideology -- racism -- and that workaday issues such as the economy are dominating this year's election.
"We need to build the economy from the bottom up, none of this trickle down business," Spencer said. "Just because you're white and southern don't mean you have to vote Republican."