>Perhaps not his skin color, but I'm quite certain the blue vs red color has a lot to do with it. And that has everything to do with the huge polarization
>that has been going on for the last few decades.

Decades?
More than a century.
I'd call the civil war "huge polarization."
Actually, the colors more appropriately should be gray and blue- the colors of those uniforms- than red and blue.
Obama , no matter what he says or does, has zero chance of carrying states like Mississippi or Alabama.
Pretending that those people don't despise him because of his race is the epitome of self-deception.