2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The "PoC don't support Bernie because they don't know him" claim is actually true [View all]MellowDem
(5,018 posts)more than liberal from the most recent statistics that break it down by race in 2009. I'm not defining them, polls have shown how different demographics define themselves.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/125579/asian-americans-lean-left-politically.aspx
And it's not surprising, Gallup has shown just how conservative people in the US have consistently been, with a slow movement toward liberal. Most Democrats consistently identify as moderate or conservative to this day, and that's only slowly changing.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/188129/conservatives-hang-ideology-lead-thread.aspx
Relative to DU, the Democratic Party is pretty conservative.
What "liberal" means will vary from person to person, but we can look at how people identity, and the US as a whole identifies overwhelmingly more as conservative. Whether someone considers Sanders liberal or not, he presents himself as one. Clinton, not as much.
Whites are much more conservative compared to blacks, overall. But we're talking about just people who are Democrats.
The reason people react so viscerally to the facts is because so many on here do truly believe minorities must be liberals. It's not true at all. It's some of that paternalism you bring up, some of that defining who and what people are.