First WHOA: The author is barred by ethics from “showing my political stripes” - so she sends her 15 year old daughter to work for Obama and then she writes about it! That’s some etics code.
Second: She is accepting a 15 year old kids’ observations of five confederate flags and other scuttlebut as a worthwhile gauge of county wide racism.
Third: She cites as evidence of white racism a poll which shows those affected by racism EVENLY split between Obama and McCain, and she mentions the tiny fact that Obama WON the damn county!
Perhaps those confederate flags that she finds racist don’t mean what she believes them to mean.
Remember that all your points require YOU to BELIEVE her story. Furthermore, the mere fact someone has a confederate flag in no way makes that person a racist.