Buncombe County, North Carolina, is home to the city of Asheville.  Nine out of ten county residents are white; one out of three are evangelical Protestants; one out of ten adults have not graduated from high school; and a handful want to make me open my window and shout to the mountains.  Instead, I will write another edition of Little Town I Live In.

Yesterday, Jon Ostendorff of Asheville Citizen-Times reported this story (I have edited it for length):

A volunteer with the Buncombe County Republican Party is no longer handling the group’s Twitter account after a post said President Barack Obama sounded “nervous, scattered, white” during the debate.

Party spokesman Nathan West said the volunteer … was trying to make a point about how Obama is “constantly changing his language and cadence depending on what crowd he is pandering to at the time.”

“This person in no way intended for this to be offensive to anyone, and if there are those who think otherwise, I would simply argue that they are looking for something that’s not there,” West said.

The Buncombe GOP criticized Obama throughout the debate with … tweets such as “somebody gettin’ his ass whooped!” [and] “enough about ya damn grandmother, already.”

Buncombe GOP Chairman Henry Mitchell said he had heard no other complaints about the message mentioning race other than questions from the newspaper.

The report says the volunteer relinquished access to the county GOP’s Twitter account, but it doesn’t say that the party reprimanded him or told him to quit.  Most likely because neither of those things happened.  Instead, the volunteer probably got a sympathetic pat on the back — after all, you don’t hear anyone complaining about it around here.