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The day after Barack Obama was elected to become America's first black president, the BBC's Max Pearson travelled to the historical heart of the civil rights struggle: the American south.
What does Obama's victory mean for the politics of race in America?
Max started his journey in the town of Durham in North Carolina, where he spoke to Professor Christopher Metzler of Georgetown University.
Listen Listen to Max's report from Durham (7 mins 25 secs)
Also in Durham, Max met Professor Michael Munger, Chairman of the Political Science Department at Duke University and Peter Feaver, professor of political science who has recently returned from a sabbatical with the Bush administration.
Listen Listen to Professor Munger and Peter Feaver (4 mins 59 secs)
Max then travelled to the Douglas Glayon Transportation Depot, a train terminal that was once subject to enforced segregation.
There he met Robert J Brown, who served in the Nixon administration as an advisor on race.
Listen Listen to Max interview Robert J Brown (6 mins 23 secs)
Dale Beattie at Pat's coffee shop. He lost both legs in Iraq
He then met Greensboro's first black mayor, Yvonne Johnson, Republican Olga Morgan Wright and Democrat Paul Mengert.
Listen Listen to their discussion (4 mins 31 secs)
The economy was a big reason for Obama's victory. In struggling states like North Carolina, 60% of people said it was their number one concern.
Listen Listen to Max talking to women at a Salvation Army Centre (2 mins 39 secs)
As well as the economic problems the country faces, its involvement in two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is of great concern to many who voted on Tuesday.
Listen Listen to Max talking to war veterans (4 mins 1 sec)
The last stop in North Carolina was Charlotte where Max called into the "No Grease Barber Shop".
There, some of the predominantly black workers and clientele gave him their views on Obama's victory.
Listen Listen to Max talking to people at the No Grease Barber Shop (1 min 46 secs)
Max then travelled to Atlanta, Georgia, and stopped off in a diner where he overheard this conversation between a black man and a white woman.
Listen Listen to the diner conversation (1 min 53 secs)
The panellists agreed that the US was not now 'post-racial'
Finally, Max ended his journey in Birmingham, Alabama: the heart of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
He brought together Minister Caroline McKinstry, who was in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham when it was bombed in 1963, Richard Finley, head of the African-American Republican Council and Dr Bryan Fair from the University of Alabama School of Law.
Listen Listen to their discussion (25 mins 50 secs)
First broadcast 5-7 November 2008
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