The U.S. South has always had a strange pull on me. It's a place with a legacy of slavery, violence, bigotry, poverty, fundamentalist religion -- and is the wellspring for much of 20th century America's musical culture.

From MSNBC.com cartoonist Daryl Cagle's blog:

Patrick Corrigan, the cartoonist for the Toronto Star, sent me this caricature of Obama (left) that his editor refused to run, because it was too much of a “racial stereotype.”

See it here.