To all those critics who say most West Virginia voters who are racist, check out McDowell County

by: bluemcdowell

Thu May 15, 2008 at 21:11:00 PM EDT

In the race for Circuit Court Judge for the 8th Circuit District incumbent Booker T. Stephens easily defeated his opponent Ted White by a 2 to 1 margin to win the Democratic nomination.  Like Del. Moore he has no Republican opponent at the present time and is a lock to be re-elected for another term.

Both Del. Moore and Judge Stephens are great people as well as great servants for McDowell County.  I know that both of them are the real deal.  

This won't alleviate most of the criticism about W. Virginians' reluctance to support African-American candidates, but I'm hoping and praying the so-called experts will at least take a look at McDowell County voters and West Virginians as a whole both white and African-American before criticizing us West Virginians again.

Also Hillary Clinton is loved to death by the people here in McDowell County and West Virginia as a whole.  To me this was more of a pro-Hillary Clinton vote than an anti-Barack Obama vote.

I also believe that a part of Obama's struggles here in W. Virginia were much more so because of the false perception of his church, his "Muslim-sounding" name, Rev. Wright's "GD America" comments, and Obama's "small-town" comments than race.  

And McDowell County's population is 87 percent white and just 12 percent black, for those whom use the "McDowell County has a larger African-American percentage than any other West Virginia county" argument.

That's just my opinion....