Andrew Sullivan: If Virginia and Florida go back to the Republicans, it’s the Confederacy, entirely. You put the map of the civil war over this electoral map you got the civil war.
Stephanopoulos: You’re rolling your eyes, George. [He says to George Will]
Sullivan: Right? Am I wrong?
George Will: You are and I’ll show why. Democrats have been losing the white vote constantly since 1964. So, that’s not new.
Nicolle Wallace: John Kerry lost the white vote.
Will: That’s right. Here’s what we’re trying to talk about. 2008, from Obama, gets that many white votes. This time, the polls indicating they get this many, we’re trying to explain this difference. Now, there are two possible explanations. A lot of white people who voted for Obama in 2008 watched him govern for four years and said, “not so good, let’s try someone else.” The alternative, the Confederacy hypothesis, is those people somehow for some reason in the last four years became racist.
Sullivan: No, that’s not my argument at all, George.
Will: It sounds like it.
It sure does George, it sure does. And I guess I am extremely racist because I didn’t vote for him the first time. And it’s all because I live in Louisiana.
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