Is America Changing

A week ago, I did a couple of hours of phone bank work for Obama, calling voters in North Carolina. At the end of the shift, I was talking to another volunteer, and this is what he told me.


He was talking to a 60-year-old woman with a Greek name; thus, he can fairly assume she is white. He asked if she had decided yet. She responded enthusiatically that "she could hardly wait to vote for Obama."

The volunteer then said: "I grew up in New Orleans. When I hear an older, white, Southern woman say that she can hardly wait to vote for a black man, I know that things are changing in America."