I'm watching Bernie on This Week with George Stephanopolous. He made the following statement:

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Pretty sure we're on the same side. My point was that Sanders supporters are fond of pointing out that he inspires certain demographics that democrats will need to get to the polls in November such as young people. Then they make reference to her victories in southern states as somehow related to the 150 year gone confederacy, implying these states are more conservative and won't vote democrat in the GE anyway so those wins somehow mean less. Leaving aside the fact that most of the mountain west where most of his recent caucus wins have taken place will also be red in November, the reason her lead is nearly insurmountable at this point is not because she won in the south. It's because she won by huge margins in the south making it very difficult for him to counter those margins even if he can rack up wins in the west and northeast. The basis of those roughly 70-30 margins is that she's winning with people of color by tremendous percentages and there are a lot of them in those places. Of course minorities are just as important for democrats to inspire in November as young people or independents, but it somehow obscures this dynamic by calling them the confederacy or saying she only wins in "the south".