Ron Paul's response is thoroughly dishonest. He says: Obviously the people in my district do not believe I am a racist, because they have elected me repeatedly since their publication. No, Ron Paul, that does not mean that the racism is not true. To the contrary, it means that you live in a racist, Southern congressional district, and that your Republican constituents _love_ this type of hatred (and they do). I personally live in a Republican suburb in Louisiana, and I have to hear these types of racist comments all the time. This type of disgusting Republican polemic _wins_elections_ for Republicans where I live. If there had been only one such editorial, that would be different; but this apparently went on for years, with no retractions, no apologies, until Ron Paul thought it would hurt him politically.