The Politico, which I hope is proving to be a viable long-term press outlet, has an article today that lays out what you would already suspect.
For all the high talk about how "diverse" the Democratic party is, and how they provide such a nice contrast to the lilly-white GOP, when push comes to shove, they're pretty old skool over there, too.
While the voting base of the Democratic party admittedly looks more like the quilt that makes up our country, that's the bottom of the pyramid.
The top is still inhabited by white men.
70% of the perhaps-crucial superdelegates just happen to be white men.
This not-surprising finding doesn't really need a whole lot of pontificating on my part. It's what you already knew if you'd taken a moment to think about it.
Bill Clinton used to like to talk about diversity, opening his cabinet up to African-Americans and the like, but he got backed into a corner, he wasn't at all scared to call them uppity if it meant hanging on to what was his.
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