Santorum Claims That Saying 'Y'all' Is Divisive

Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum says that Vice President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama are "dividing this country" by playing the race card and using words like "y'all." CNN host Jim Acosta on Sunday asked if it was

assertion to a group, which included many African Americans, that Romney's pro-Wall Street policies would "put y'all back in chains."

"Y'all?" Santorum exclaimed. "Y'all is y'all. And in a group -- you know, I've been in groups like that and, you know, it's very easy when you're in a group of people that, you know, when you're in the South, when you're up in different areas of the country with different groups of people, you develop an affinity with the groups you're speaking in front of. That's what Vice President [Biden] was doing. He was trying to develop that affinity. And he did so in a very horrendous way, and he should apologize for it."

"But it is exactly the tone of this campaign. Gov. Romney is like any other candidate: 'You want to go after my record, you want to go after things I've said and done, fine.' That's not the complaint of the Romney campaign. The complaint of the Romney campaign -- the legitimate complaint is that President Obama is trying to divide this country to win this election."

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