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In West Virginia yesterday, among those voters who said that race (as in ethnicity) was the most important factor in their decision, 85 percent chose Hillary Clinton. Congratulations to the Clinton for President campaign - you’ve got the racist vote all wrapped up.

It’s a sign of how far the Clinton for President campaign has descended, to become dependent upon racist remnants within the Democratic Party. It’s also a sign of how far the Democratic Party in general has come since the 1950s, when Democrats defended racial segregation. Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been working, with increasing lack of subtlety, to drag the Democratic Party back to those days.

The West Virginia primary reminds us of the dirty roots of Bill and Hillary Clinton in the politics of Arkansas, where Democrats are ideologically more like Republicans than like Democrats elsewhere in the country. Arkansas is the land of Democratic Senators Mark Pryor and Blanche Lincoln, who vote with Senate Republicans to support George W. Bush more than they vote with progressive Democrats.

It didn’t start out this way, but the Democratic primary contest has become a fight over whether the Democrats will go backwards, to their racist, corrupt past, or forwards into a positive vision of America which welcomes all who support the traditional American civic values of liberty, justice and equality.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign has aligned itself with small-minded Democratic power brokers like Thomas Buffenbarger, who accused Obama supporters of being the “latte-drinking, Prius-driving, Birkenstock-wearing” kind of Democrats.

To the Buffenbargers of the Democratic Party, I say that if I have to choose between driving a Prius while wearing Birkenstocks, or living in an America where “white people’ cannot bring themselves ever to vote for any candidate who doesn’t have pure European ancestry, then I’m strapping on my sandals.

Those who suggest that Barack Obama is weakened because of Hillary Clinton’s strong victory in West Virginia need to remember that West Virginia has not awarded its Electoral College delegates to a Democratic presidential candidate in a very long time. The Democratic path to the White House will not go through West Virginia… unless we follow Hillary Clinton’s new Southern Strategy, and transform the Democratic Party into a party of hatred.

Clinton Democrats, if you can’t handle this harsh analysis, and you think that it’s unfair to accuse people who vote against Barack Obama because of his ancestry of being racists, then I have advice for you: Please go re-register as a Republican. I don’t want to see people like you in the Democratic Party. Besides, you can feel good about voting for John McCain. Remember that he voted against the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday - a position you can be comfortable with.