[houston1]

I agree, it's sad that it still matters in this day and age, but the people I'm speaking of joined the R party because they view it as the "white" party & the D party the "minorities" party, but that's also the image the R party has cultivated to stay in power.

[Waryone]

Well, "those" people can just cross the state border into West Virginia if they still want to vote for "Sheets."

[Sisku Hanne]

I must comment on your previous "racial" accusations. I barely live an hour away and I really can't find anything in decades of personal experience, in knowing several of the legislators from DelCo, or anywhere else to support your allegations of Republican racism in Delaware county. That's old mainline Philly territory and it's plenty liberal. In fact it went Dem in every presidential election since 1992, with Kerry winning by 14 points in 2004 (R-116,728 D-157,531).

I don't know who "these people" are that you speak of, but I do feel it is unfair for you to claim the Rep party in this specific area cultivates a racial divide to "stay in power". We work very hard to remove race-baiting from the political dialog and focus on people- not their color. Nor is it fair to paint the rest of the mid-state with the same brush. I do know that the right has a kooky fringe same as the left, only considerably smaller, and I realize there are kooks in all quarters who do not represent the vast majority of us.