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Article: In S.C., One Road Divides Two Ways of Thinking; Views on Obama, and Race, Hold Firm
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- The Washington Post
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- September 22, 2009
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The Bolen and Elmore homes, three blocks apart in opposite
directions off Columbia Road in this small city, could not seem more
alike. Both are simple brick ranch-style houses occupied by retired
couples, the men former police officers, who spend hours a day in
dark dens where cigarette smoke wafts beneath the whirl of ceiling
fans.
Inside the hush of these rooms, however, their differences become
clear. Columbia Road is a long and narrow country highway that
serves as the border between the congressional districts of Rep. Joe
Wilson, a white Republican who heckled President Obama during a
speech, and Rep. James E. Clyburn, Capitol Hill's top-ranking black
Democrat, who led the House vote ...