In America’s season of discontent, much of the outrage is trained on President Barack Obama. But division persists over how much race influences the backlash.

WASHINGTON — In the predawn hours of last Nov. 5, while much of the nation celebrated Barack Obama’s election as the nation’s first black president, three white men in Springfield, Mass., doused the partially completed Macedonia Church of God in Christ with gasoline and burned it to the ground.
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