[RegulatorCountry]

The audience Nifong was playing to is the 50% plus of Durham County that is black, radical and largely ignorant. Their interest lay in prosecuting three rich white boys ... period. For supposed past "injustices," regardless of their guilt or innocence.

Your theorizing is always amusing, but this borders on silly, almost as silly as your categorizing the entirety of Southside Virginia as some sort of Klan stronghold.

[muawiyah]

Not the entirity ~ just identified the part of the commonwealth where they live.

[muawiyah]

Nifong knew his target audience. Otherwise he could have just picked any 3 fellows on that team since, presumably, everybody who goes to Duke is "rich" (at least by local standards).

He didn't. There was a distinct North East Bias apparant.

So, who is it in the NE who stands out among the white rich boys that'd be a better target sure to drag in the white Democrats in Durham county?

Your boy Nifong played every prejudice he could find ~ and he won office. He crushed is primary opponents and he won the general election just as easily.

[SmoothTalker]

"The audience Nifong was playing to is the 50% plus of Durham County that is black, radical and largely ignorant."

Exactly. Durham is filled with uneducated black people who hate Duke University with a passion and are very jealous of the wealth of a lot of the kids who go their. Going after some Dookies was an election year strategy from a very small man.

[muawiyah]

Like for you to check out the knife in the back the Sons of the Confederacy gave to George Allen in the darkest days of the campaign.

This was after his mother's Jewishness became known courtesy of the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/28/AR2006092801835.html