2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Stop 3/5ing the vote of the AA community. [View all]Attorney in Texas
(3,373 posts)is not a denigration of African American voters. It is a fact that the Clintons have ties to the Dixie states, and it is a fact that the states of the Confederacy have not been welcoming to Jewish civil right leaders.
It is a pattern of more-conservative/less-progressive voting seen in white voters and others who cast their votes from former Confederate states.
These states tend to go Republican in general elections and, when they rarely do elect Democrats, those Dixie Democrats are often more conservative than some of the least conservative Republicans from the Northeast and from the West Coast.
The Democrats from Dixie are less progressive than the Democrats from other parts of the country. It is not a racial issue (and if it were, New York, Washington DC, and other territories with high African American populations would be electing red-state Dixie Democrats BUT THEY AREN'T). It's a cultural issue.
Stop blaming African Americans for electing conservative Dixie Democrats because that is a problem that crosses racial lines!