Bernie Sanders’s base isn’t the working class. It’s young people
By Jeff Stein, Vox.com
(May 19, 2016 09:00 am) — After Bernie Sanders crushed Hillary Clinton in the West Virginia primary last week, the national media was ready with an explanation: the white working class.
The New York Times and The Atlantic, for instance, both attributed Sanders’s win to his strength among low-income white workers. “White Working-Class Voters in West Virginia Pick Sanders Over Clinton,” read NPR’s headline.
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