How can democracy work if everyone is so ignorant and stupid?

Obama couldn’t win.” Why not? “Race. I’ve talked to people—a woman who helped run county elections last year. She said she wouldn’t vote for a black man. There’s a lot of white people that just wouldn’t vote for a colored person. Especially older people.” Indeed, no one among the 24 people I talked to in Inez would even consider voting for Obama. His name often evoked a sharp racial hostility that was expressed without hesitation or apology.