"Just from what little I've seen of [Michelle] and Mr. Obama, Sen. Obama, they're a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks that they're uppity," Westmoreland said. Asked to clarify that he used the word "uppity," Westmoreland said, "Uppity, yeah."You know, I was going to make a joke about how John McCain had said, "We're all Georgians now," but then I realized Westmoreland is the guy could only come up with three of the Ten Commandments on The Colbert Report. And I can't top that.-Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, Republican congressman from Georgia's 3rd District, as quoted in The Hill
This is the classic, Southern good old boy in the building industry racism that we have in North Carolina, too. Only stupider.