People of Color suffer under the greatest income equality and People of Color preferred Hillary Clinton to Bernie Sanders. Whites, as a whole, tend to experience less income inequality.
"Eight years ago, exit polls showed Hillary Clinton with comfortable margins over President Barack Obama among whites and Latinos during the Democratic primary season.
This year, exit polls of Democratic voters showed whites narrowly preferred Bernie Sanders. Yet, Clinton is the presumptive 2016 Democratic nominee.
The key difference: African-Americans sided overwhelmingly with Clinton, with black voters across the South and in heavily Democratic cities fueling her wins and her delegate advantages.
And for any Democrats eyeing future White House bids, it serves notice that the presidential demand for a diverse voting coalition isn’t just a general election concern for Republicans who are too dependent on whites; it actually begins in the Democratic primaries.
“You just can’t have a limited strategy focused on Iowa and New Hampshire, two of the whitest states in the country,” said Atlanta-based Democratic consultant Tharon Johnson, who worked for Obama’s 2008 campaign, arguing that Sanders and Clinton, in her first campaign, made that mistake.
South Carolina Democratic Chairman Jaime Harrison, whose early voting state offered the first primary contest with a large contingent of black voters, singled out black women. “They almost single-handedly gave the nomination to Secretary Clinton,” he said, after “doing that for Sen. Obama” in 2008."
Black women often suffer under double income inequality, being women and being black.
"The 2008 & 2016 campaigns bear strikingly similar trajectories. Each time, the top two contenders split Iowa and New Hampshire before a competitive finish in Nevada. But Obama then trounced Clinton in South Carolina by a 2-to-1 margin. Blacks made up about 55 percent of the electorate, and Obama won about four of five of them, according to exit polls conducted for the Associated Press and television networks.
This year, Clinton won South Carolina 3-to-1, with exit polling reflected a 86-14 advantage for Clinton over Sanders among blacks, who accounted for an estimated 61 percent of primary ballots."
That pattern was repeated across the South and in states with major metropolitan areas.
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