2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Racist Meme: The South Doesn't Count [View all]wildeyed
(11,243 posts)of the Democratic Party as a whole. To suggest that we disenfranchise certain Democrats based on region is one of the shittiest and most undemocratic suggestions I have ever heard.
The fact that Bernie Sanders did not persuade more black voters to support him is on him and his campaign, not on the voters he failed to win over. The fact that he has been dismissive of those voters after the fact MAY be a big clue as to why they didn't support him in the first place.
BTW, I did back of the envelope delegate math and only included blue and potential swing states and Clinton is STILL winning by a significant margin. Also, Texas and NC will be blue within the next decade or so, according to demographic trends. Pretty sure that majority-white red states like Kansas and Nebraska are going to stay in the GOP column for much longer. So even by their own twisted logic, disenfranchising red state Democrats does not net a primary win for Bernie Sanders. The only way to do that is to kick blacks out, specifically. And in addition to being immoral, no Democratic presidential contender wins without black voters in the GE. And pretty sure that if you don't let them vote in the primary, they will not flock to your candidate in the GE.
Just sayin'