These are the people that the DNC ignores and the very people that could turn this State blue. While the African American Community is courted in MS and acknowledged as the base (and I don’t dispute that they are the base of the Democratic Party) the fact that if the Democratic Party ever wants to win elections in Mississippi they have to grow their base seems to escape their notice.
The Democratic Party does little to reach out to these people, until Bernie Sanders came along. We are feeling the Bern and if we can just manage to nominate Bernie in the Primary this year Mississippi could turn Blue for the general election. These Independent voters are the ones WE need to turn Mississippi Blue. Our base will vote for the Democratic Nominee no matter who it might be, but Independents don’t owe us their vote, only Bernie Sanders has earned it.