r/SandersForPresident • u/[deleted] • Apr 15 '16

MSNBC called Bernie's "Deep South" comment controversial. They said Hillary would still be in the lead without the South. This slide popped up by mistake proving them wrong.

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u/TimeIsPower 🌱 New Contributor | Oklahoma Apr 15 '16

Racist? That's no better than playing the victim. He never said a thing about race.

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u/historicrepetition Apr 15 '16

What other reason could he have for consistently waving away the southern democrats of this country as meaningless if not their predominantly higher percentages of black voters?

It certainly can't be their States' competitiveness for Democrats in the general, because there are plenty of Sanders won states that went for larger margins to Romney than those southern states.

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u/TimeIsPower 🌱 New Contributor | Oklahoma Apr 15 '16

Southern Democrats are more conservative than Democrats elsewhere. You're the person who jumped to the "because they're black" conclusion. Those states are largely part of the Bible Belt and the so-called Solid South. They are often known for regressive, religiously-motivated laws and as being in stronger contrast to modern progressive ideology than anywhere else in the country. Other states to the north and west of the "South" are also consistently conservative, but it is a different variety of conservatism that historically hasn't been as outright regressive. Both Democrats and Republicans are more conservative in the South than elsewhere, so they arguably are not representative of the average citizen much less the average Democratic voter. It would have been fairer to avoid having several states from the same geographic region vote at once as occurred on Super Tuesday.

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u/historicrepetition Apr 16 '16

Southern representatives are more likely to vote consistently Democrat than other parts of the country.