Seriously though, I'd be curious to hear MIR's explanation for why black people are supporting Hillary so overwhelmingly over Bernie.
I was losing my rough ridin' mind. Donna Brazille made the astute point that black people in Michigan don't vote like black people in Mississippi but they essentially ignored her and and were like "nah all coons are the same, they decided at the meeting that they would back newly Southern Black Baptist Hillary."
i mean they voted for her a little less. but they still voted overwhelmingly for clinton.
KSUW, we are largely talking about southern black people. Southern black people, just like southern white people tend to be more conservative so southern democrats are evangelical moderates, Hillary is the moderate in the race. I don't know this but I feel like southern blacks are more provincial than northern and western blacks and there are people that see her and bubba as southern although I am more southern than she is and I hate the south. It is frustrating to me that things like mass incarceration of blacks aren't sticking to the Clintons like they should. It is also stunning that out of Sunday nights debate we heard chatter about Bernie Sanders ghetto comment but we didn't hear a damn thing about Hillary's clunky and transparently disingenuous answer to the question about the role God plays in her life. She has spent the better part of two months talking to people in southern black churches and she can't clearly identify the role God plays in her life.
Sys, yes she did do well with blacks in Michigan but it is worth noting, in the south and everywhere else for that matter that the black voting block is largely comprised of women. Black men were statistically insignificant in the CNN Michigan exit polling data, because the Clintons put most of us in jail amirite! I think the numbers of black people supporting Bernie would be stronger if like, with white people, black men had equal representation within the voting block of the race. The woman also explains why Hillary is polling better with southern blacks than Obama did in 2012, that and Edwards was still around the race when the south was in play.