2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Racist Meme: The South Doesn't Count [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)voters in those states are highly unlikely to support the Democrat who wins in the primary.
The challenge we fact in November is to get our voters out in states that might quite possibly or will pretty assuredly vote for the Democratic candidate.
If we allow voters in a state like Nebraska which has not voted for a Democrat for president since 1964 to have much say in selecting our candidate, we are making a strategic mistake as a Party.
If we want to win, our goal needs to be to get the majority of voters in reliable Democratic states and swing states enthusiastic about our candidate. Thus, we should try to nominate a candidate that the states that have voted Democratic in past national elections or that are swing states that can vote Democratic if we really get the vote out want.
This extremely simple and obvious fact about how we can win the election in November is not an insult to voters in certain states. It has nothing to do with the race of the voters.
It is simply a realistic approach to the strategy of motivating voters to get out and vote.
And the OP is correct in that it isn't where a state is located or what the color of the skin of the voters is, the question is how do we nominate a candidate who is likely to inspire swing state voters and strongly Democratic voters to come out in large numbers.
That does not mean that Hillary supporters and Bernie supporters can't be happy when voters in Republican states support their candidate in big numbers. It just means that in terms of strategy for picking a candidate to win in November, we should want to please voters in strongly Democratic states and Democrats in swing states most of all. Because those are the voters who will win the November election for us.
Alabama, Mississippi, Nebraska and Kansas voters (just randomly picked states as examples) are not likely to win the election in November for the Democratic candidate.
This is a concept having to do with strategy, not race or any other thing. The OP is correct in that the same strategy consideration applies to Kansas that applies to Mississippi.