“You are a racist.”

“You are a racist,” said the text message. Additionally “All white people are racist. Just look at how many whites are voting against Barack Obama and how many are voting for Hillary Clinton, a white woman” Then the email got nasty questioning my parentage.

The assumption of the correspondent that I am “white” is correct – but, my parents were married so s/he is wrong on that second score.

I can agree there is an unwelcome racial tinge to this year’s Democrat Presidential nomination contest. Something like 90% of African-Americans are voting for Barack Obama, and a lot of non-blacks are voting for a white woman. A longtime friend who has spent his life as a statistician tells me the former is a “significant anomaly” – he always talks like that; he means there is a rodent in the wood pile. So, what is going on?

By the way since I was born in West Virginia that makes me an Appalachian-American and I solicit, and in fact insist of my correspondent to be referred to as such.