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Obama nomination: the end of America's racial divisions?
Obama nomination: the end of America's racial divisions?
Last Modified: 03 Sep 2008
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Andrew Thomas
It would be tempting to say that Obama's nomination marks the moment at which race ceases be a fracture line in American society. But has it? Andrew Thomas reports.
This election is seen as a turning point: a black man running for the highest office in the land.
As Republicans meet for their convention in the twin cities of St Paul and Minneapolis, we've been to a side of the latter that John McCain is unlikely to see during his stay, a place where race is the often unspoken fault line that runs through social issues such as crime and family breakdown.
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