Participants at a pro-union rally near Nissan Motor Company’s Canton, Mississippi, plant listen to Bernie Sanders speak on Saturday, March 4, 2017.
"Bernie Sanders didn’t just lose the South in the 2016 Democratic primary—he got destroyed in it. The Vermont senator lost all 11 states that made up the Confederacy to his opponent, Hillary Clinton—and most of them by huge margins. Clinton won by nearly 50 points in South Carolina, almost 60 in Alabama, and a whopping 66 points in Mississippi. In all, Clinton won around 5.1 million votes to Sanders’s estimated 2.5 million. Without such a poor showing in the region, his party’s nomination might have been within Sanders’s reach. But despite the thorough ass-kicking he received here last year, there’s hope that progressive and leftist candidates can compete against the wave of red that’s washed over the South since the passage of the Civil Rights Act. ..."
The Nation
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