2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Racist Meme: The South Doesn't Count [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)in November.
It's not a dismissal of black voters at all...it's a recognition that there are probably too many caucasian reactionaries in those states ffor our ticket too have much of a shot of the electoral votes in those states.
For example, due to the complete inability of WHITE Southerners to change and grow on race to any significant degree we both know that nobody the Democrats could nominate this year is going to carry South Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana, or Mississippi. And even Bill got shut out in most of the South in '92 and '96. HRC couldn't take those states in the fall, and even Bill got shut out in those states in '92 and '96.
That's ALL it meant.
No Democratic presidential candidate would ever have meant what you keep implying Bernie meant.