> I'm not ecstactic myself about this Iowa vote. However, I must take
> note of this one small positive about the US politics even in the depths
> of Reaganism. Somehow a bunch of white people voted for a Black person
> for president. It's a tiny good thing in a sea of trouble.
In the depths of *literal* Reaganism (1988) Jesse Jackson won eleven primaries, including Vermont, which is even whiter than Iowa. That was a good thing, but it didn't seem to change very much.