Race and Reconcilliation in WV

An intimate look at how the dynamics of race affect the Democratic party on West Virginia.

Almost as soon as Obama locked up the Democratic presidential nomination, the order came from Washington to merge the operations of the Democratic Party and the Obama campaign from the top down to the local level.

The predominately elderly, white organizers who have run the county Democratic Party here for a generation were uneasy about integrating their operation with the Democratic presidential campaign, which was filled with new, unknown faces, many of them minorities.