What Makes Southern Democrats Unique

… The states of the former Confederacy will elect a little over one quarter of Democrats’ pledged delegates in 2020 — six of them on Super Tuesday (Alabama, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia). And so as the 2020 Democratic primary contests move to the South, I figured it was worth a dive into what happened there in the 2016 Democratic primary, based on a 2016 survey of 3,668 Americans by the Diane D. Blair Center of Southern Politics, of which I am the director. It illustrates the ways in which Democrats in the South are different from Democrats outside of the region — differences that may again come into play in 2020. CONT.

Angie Maxwell, FiveThirtyEight