One of the most alienating memes at this website from Front Pagers and popular diarists was the continual drum beat that Sanders and his supporters are racist and sexist. You drove many, many long time members away with your ugliness. You know who you are. You should be ashamed, but I doubt your are.
Given Sanders long history for social and racial justice, it was an ugly and infuriating charge. It seemed co-ordinated. Making it even uglier. Like something Rove would do.
Yesterday Ban Nock put up a diary from the same poll showing how Trump supporters were more racist than Clinton supporters. Pat yourselves on the back. This poll was done by Reuters and was one of the biggest polling projects of the year on racial attitudes.
“The poll, which ran over three months and included interviews with more than 16,000 people...We polled Sanders supporters too, but didn’t include them in our final report for various reasons…...We mostly excluded the Sanders data for space reasons. We really should have kept it in.”
So, for the record, the Reuters updated poll stated:
You’ll see that there was a difference between Clinton and Sanders’ supporters, with the pro-Sanders camp expressing fewer negative views on race than those backing Clinton.
Look how close in racial attitude Clinton and Kaisch supporters are — much closer between those groups than between Sanders and Clinton group. In one category Clinton’s supporters even view blacks WORSE than Kaisch’s supporters.
I doubt I will see any apologies below.