Leave it to MSNBC to group all Southern Republicans together as misguided racists. On the May 20 edition of The Reid Report, anchor Joy Reid invited Democratic strategist Tara Dowdell and Jimmy Williams, an MSNBC contributor and executive editor of bluenationreview.com, to discuss the inability of Democrats to garner substantial support in the South.

While Obama received support from 39 percent of white voters on average, Reid explained, he only received support from 10 percent of white voters in Mississippi and 15 percent of white voters in Alabama. When Reid asked Williams -- a former Senate Democratic staffer and South Carolina native –  how such a disparity could exist, he was ready to roll with MSNBC’s favorite answer: Republican racism. [See video below. Click here for MP3 audio]