Wasn’t enough campaigning I guess. Enlighten me, what did Bernie’s campaign do to make the south a voting stronghold for himself? One would assume a person running under Bernie’s platform would do far better. Or at least would find ways to counter Biden’s status as former VP to Obama.
He had activist campaigning there full time and spent more money there than anyone but Bloomberg. The fact is, there is no progressive movement in most parts of the south. Their politics is entirely different than the upper half of the country. There are progressive challengers to centrists all the time up north, not so much in the south. Doug Kones won Alabama largely because the progressive black mayor of Birmingham created the entire infrastructure for Democrats in Alabama from scratch. The South has a lot of prosperous black cities and suburbs but it also has the poorest, least educated and most under sourced black vote - it’s have and have nots situation. Every progressive policy has always skipped them or underserved them - people vote more of trust and relationships than any idea. It’s a decision I disagree with but it’s not irrational. Bernie Sanders is a new deal democrat, but the new deal skipped most black people. Most government programs seldom trickle down to southern black folk. It’s why a guy like Bloomberg could throw his money around.
It’s what annoys me about the people on this board who used results to claim their nonsensical personal tales had anything to do with what the data says. Simply put, Bernie Sanders was never going to have a better relationship with Democratic policy makers than the former Vice President nor with black people. It was always his race to lose and the shifts in polling had more to do with White people moving around. If states with heavy black populations voted earlier there would have been no Klobuchar, Pete, Warren or anyone else. It would’ve come down to Biden and Sanders from day one.
can you please explain the thought process?
