2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Racist Meme: The South Doesn't Count [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)a Democrat since 1964) should not and do not count for as much in the Democratic primary/convention (in terms of delegates).
All the Southern states which are more conservative than the extremely Western states vote before the Western states.
The OP is correct that Bernie supporters are very happy about the fact that Democrats in Utah and Idaho for example, two very conservative states, voted for Bernie.
We shall see what happens in California, which is one of the most if not the most diverse state in the union.
African-Americans in the South are liberal on race issues. I have no idea where they stand on economic issues or on other social issues like gay marriage and separation of church and state and other similar issues.
We Bernie supporters are happy that Bernie has won some super conservative states in the West that will never join to elect him in November just as Hillary supporters were happy that Hillary won votes in super conservative states in the South that will, as states, never vote as states for either Hillary or Bernie in November.
None of these states count for much in terms of the voters who are likely to vote for a Democrat in November. But there is still a lot of joy for the supporters of a candidate when that candidate wins a primary regardless of its relevance or irrelevance to the winning of the November election.
And unless there is a big and very sudden change in the hearts of Americans in the conservative states in the South, Midwest and West, the outcomes of all these primaries are pretty irrelevant to the November election.