Respect Authority

This is has to be one of my favorite quotes from FiveThirtyEight’s on the road feature:

So a canvasser goes to a woman’s door in Washington, Pennsylvania. Knocks. Woman answers. Knocker asks who she’s planning to vote for. She isn’t sure, has to ask her husband who she’s voting for. Husband is off in another room watching some game. Canvasser hears him yell back, “We’re votin’ for the n***er!”

Woman turns back to canvasser, and says brightly and matter of factly: “We’re voting for the n***er.”

Is it wrong that I find this anecdote endearing?  God bless America, the land of pragmatic racism and progressive sensibility only when things get really close to utter disaster.  It’s always reassuring to know that when shit has caked the fan and the room smells like burned out gears, Bubba and his woman can be counted on to do the right thing.

Or this could be a colorful example of the Bradley effect taking shape.

[FiveThirtyEight]