What exactly constitutes an acceptable human being around here?

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132. maybe for the same reason

that my county party is 95% white.

The activists who show up to the meetings, that is.

Of course, the county is about 84% white and only 38% Democratic.

Because the white activists don't welcome black participation? Hell, if they wanted to get involved thirty black people could take the organization over. They have the numbers, and if they get elected as a precinct person, they have the absolute right to participate.

Consider the 2008 caucus in the 5th Senate district (comprising perhaps 80% of the county). We had about 400 black people show up to caucus for Obama. Although there may have been twenty white people in the room too. Kinda hard to tell in that packed room. I think all five of us Edwards supporters were white males (and in the second round, all five of us switched to Obama).

There were about 200 Hillary supporters, with perhaps five black people in that room (I know of at least one).

With numbers like that, black people could dominate the party organization if they wanted to. In fact, I pulled a list of caucus goers to use to recruit precinct people, which we are desperately short of.

In a similar way, they could dominate DU.

Although, the somewhat surprising truth is

Obama voters in 2008
whites - 64%
blacks - 24%
hispanic - 12%
asians - 2%