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Electing a black president permanently enraged a lot of hateful people across the country. We're going to be dealing with the fallout for a long time. To be clear I'm not saying we shouldn't have, but I think we underestimated just how many people in this country would react very badly to that from a political standpoint.

> There was a saying what goes Missouri so goes the nation.. this will never be true again.

Actually, that might explain a lot of things.

> There was a saying what goes Missouri so goes the nation. That should scare every American. I can hop on a plane and be back in my country in about 5 hours, but what are you going to do if the whole country keeps trending the way that state is?