Obama and the White, Working Class

I ran across an interesting bit of information today. You often hear that Obama has real trouble attracting support from the white, working class. It turns out that this is only partially true. Consider the following graph.

Source: Recent survey from the Public Religion and Research Institute—entitled “Beyond God and Guns”

In the West, Midwest, and Northeast support for Obama and Romney is fairly evenly divided. Obama doesn't have a white working class problem. He has a white, working class problem with Southerners, who overwhelmingly support Romney, which skews the national results.

So, white, working class Southerners don't care for a black guy. . . . . I think I have heard this music before.