Racial hatred against Obama

Maureen Dowd's column:  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/opinion/13dowd.html

It's obvious that much of the hatred aimed at Obama is fomented by racial prejudice, especially in the south (but not only in the south, unfortunately). Southerners who still cling to the rabid belief that the South should have won the Civil War are most unhappy to see a half-black man in the White House. Many of them (ignorant though they themselves may be...and are) don't like his elegance and intelligence, believing themselves to be superior to him because of their white skin color. How ridiculous!  Yet that is how their minds work. Clinging to Jim Crow type of thinking, they resent mightily that a black man would be able to raise himself above their level. They would like nothing better than to see him pulled down, and our country along with him.  And this is what they call "patriotism" and "Christianity."