Prometheus 6

The part of McCain's commercial that holds the deeply coded racism is the Moses iconography. Just think about what Moses is credited with. He freed a nation that was unjustly enslaved.

The problem in the Bible Belt is they not only know Go Down Moses, but as Old Testament Christians, they believe it. They know the wages their own God serves to slavers. You may rule as long as Egypt did, but when God calls an end to it,

No more shall they in bondage toil,
Let my people go,
Let them come out with Egypt's spoil,
Let my people go.

Pharaoh said he'd go across,
Let my people go,
But Pharaoh and his host were lost,
Let my people go.

Jordan shall stand up like a wall,
Let my people go,
And the walls of Jericho shall fall,
Let my people go. 

This is where their concern about an era coming to an end is rooted. It's why the fear of reparations. It's because they believe in divinely dispensed justice, and they know this time they are Pharaoh.