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You could probably construct some sort of scenario where African Americans would reject a Bernie endorsed Muslim, in favor of a white woman, but embrace a Bernie endorsed African American, over a South Asian moderate, but I would think that is getting away from the fat part of the bell curve.Probably not. There's an advantage to running as Black candidate in a majority-Black district. Especially in this election cycle, when gerrymandering and the Democratic response to it have
really heightened national focus on whether it's still important to have Black representation of Black communities:
politico.com - Poll democrats redistricting black votersnbcnews.com - Rep debbie wasserman schultz backlash district black democratsI can easily see that becoming more of a front-burner issue in the House race, where one of the candidates was Black, while not being as much of a factor in the Senate race where neither candidate was.
