3.28.2016

All that blather about Hillary's supposedly solid black vote…

…being held up as an explanation of her poor showing in last Saturday’s primaries—here’s an example from the Washington Post: Why did Bernie Sanders dominate Saturday? Caucuses in states with smaller black populations.—is based on the proposition that if states like Washington and Alaska did have large black populations they’d vote the same way as blacks in Alabama or Mississippi. Can anyone imagine making the same argument about white voters? Do white voters in Georgia reliably vote the same way as white voters in California? Or, for that matter, Minnesota? Or Vermont?

Doubt that.

Seems pretty demeaning to black people, that argument. At least, it does to me.

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