Analysis: Obama’s is an Appalachia problem, not a white problem

Jonathan Tilove, Newhouse News Service

- According to exit polls, Hillary Clinton won 67 percent of the white vote in West Virginia, America’s third whitest state. Yet in early March, Barack Obama won 60 percent of the white vote in Vermont, the nation’s second-whitest state.

What gives?

America is learning a lot about race this year, most recently that not all white voters are alike. There are enormous regional differences in how whites vote, differences with deep historical roots.

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