Bernie Sanders: Barack Obama won 10% of the white vote in Mississippi. That speaks to very bad work done by Democrats there
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I tend to believe that 90% in Mississippi are racist. I mean maybe not that high, but somewhere in the neighborhood.
you know, another way to frame this is that the democratic party has failed the working class and if you look at it that way... not so controversial now, is it?
Dems do nothing in Mississippi, and get 10 percent. Bernie is just talking about a 50 state strategy here, which I think a lot of people agree with.
Funny how "the working class" only ever includes white people in these onversations.
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Bad for Bernie and Mississippi. Ignoring the facts on the ground.
If it was a vacuum yeah sure. But in the real world....yikes that just displays the ignorance of the state.
It's not, but we are gonna act like every single white person is racist in Mississippi (I know there is a lot of racism there, but 90%? Nah)
not arguing whether or not 90% of whites in Mississippi are racist, because it's probably something close to that number, but Bernie's strategy of "hey, let's try winning over votes by actually appealing to these people with policy instead of thinking its hopeless and labeling them as racist" makes a lot more sense especially going into 2020.
which is why sanders only said he can raise it to like 25% of the vote at best lol
I mean, you could frame it that way just as easily as you could frame it as "The Republican party has supported and earned the vote of the working class," which wouldn't be true either.
i've heard from very good sources that the "working class" just racist white people whose votes we should ignore
the republican party hasn't *earned* their vote, they've coerced them into voting for them.
in Mississippi, one of the most racist states in the US, 90% is about right.
*get 10 percent among white voters.
It's not much better for the local candidates! 90% of white voters in Mississippi being racist is probably a generous estimate, if anything.
Jim Hood (the incumbent Attorney General, and one of the last statewide elected Democrats in the Deep South) ran a very well-funded campaign for Governor last year and lost by nearly six points. You think this shit happens by accident? Like Sanders has cracked the code that all the other Democrats are too stupid to have figured out?
Incidentally this is why it's important that the Southern states have a voice in the Democratic primary, contrary to Sanders supporters' complaints about Clinton cleaning up in the region last time. Obama may have only won 10% of the white vote, but he won 44% overall in 2012 on the strength of black turnout (black voters made up 36% of the electorate). They deserve as much of a say in the future of the Democratic Party as any blue state liberal, especially seeing as how they rely on federal programs a lot more than blue state citizens.
Do you know why Mississippi's education is so poor?
Because any time they try to raise the budget you get a bunch of adds saying "You don't want your hard earned money going to Hinds County, do you?"
(Hinds county, FYI, is very black).
Try living there before you open your mouth about the politics there.
He's clearly trying to get their votes by telling them they aren't as bad as other liberals make them out to be. Why does it matter how true or false it is if it is strengthening the democrats position there, and as a result moves racist people out of power and helps remove and reduce institutional racism.
I'm constantly trying to crack this code in Bernie threads.
Dude often ignores race as a significant factor for the stuff he throws out lmao. He's gotten better in that regard, but it still rears it's head from time to time
It is. If the non voting white people voted it would be higher.
I'd wager that Obama only got votes from Hinds County and that's about it.
More, easily. It's just that a percentage of that 90% is willing to vote for their wallets over their racism.
Yes. With racism.
Folks always ignore the studies taht says white people love socialism until they find out brown people might get help too.
Looks like economic anxiety to me.A reminder that this is the flag in Mississippi.
Why is working class people always white folks whenever we are in a thread regarding Bernie?
I'm not even a Bernie fan but yes it's getting ridiculous. I would hope most of us here can understand his intent.
Don't tell me when to open my mouth, period.
You want to know how to make a difference? Campaigning there and having a strong federal government that will spend more money in things like education, something I think a lot of these Dem candidates would do.
just in this context, these people are a subset of the working class. I agree with you in general, race shouldn't be overlooked I'm sorry to make you feel that was my intent
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this is the kind of thing you say when you want to try and get racist white people to vote for you. it's like when Biden says that Republicans aren't all bad people.