Obama's Election

Interesting article at the Times about the Levittown, PA which went heavily for Hillary coming around to vote for Obama. It occurred to me that the very process of people confronting themselves to consider Obama's candidacy must be in itself a positive step for race relations in America. It became a choice between discomfort developed from childhood, and the nation facing real problems and people overcame.

On the other hand the failure of (or rather passage of) Proposition 8 in California seems to some as a point of departure for liberals and minorities. Not sure how convincing that argument is.