In this far Southern Indiana town of 6,500, for instance, Steve Erwin, a barber, pointed to two Bibles stacked on the counter beside his barber chair and, even as he snipped away at the head of hair before him, slid open a drawer to reveal the gun he keeps within reach.
“And I’m not bitter, either,” Mr. Erwin said, mocking comments Senator Barack Obama made about small towns and wondering aloud whether people here, in a nearly all-white county seat where the mayor and the county Democratic Party chairwoman have backed Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, could fathom an Obama presidency. |
