Lily White Iowa?

Jennifer Rubin, opinion writer at the Washington Post, calls Iowa "lily white."


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/06/heres-why-you-shouldnt-write-off-biden/

Especially for a candidate whose strength is nonwhite voters, lily-white Iowa is not friendly turf.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily-white_movement



"The Lily-White Movement was an anti-African-American movement within the Republican Party in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement was a response to the political and socioeconomic gains made by African-Americans following the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which eliminated slavery. During Reconstruction, black leaders in Texas and around the country gained increasing influence in the Republican Party by organizing blacks as an important voting bloc via Union Leagues and the biracial Black-and-tan faction of the Republicans. Conservative whites attempted to eliminate this influence and recover white voters who had defected to the Democratic Party. The term lily-white movement was coined by Texas Republican leader Norris Wright Cuney, who used the term in an 1888 Republican convention to describe efforts by white conservatives to oust blacks from positions of Texas party leadership and incite riots to divide the party.[1] The term came to be used nationally to describe this ongoing movement as it further developed in the early 20th century."

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"this was a guy who lived with a black family and had a black roommate in college so it's not like he has lived in lily white isolation"-----Jennifer Rubin, Twitter

https://twitter.com/jrubinblogger/status/1206595636872781826?lang=en

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/11/sanderss-secret-is-out-he-has-no-movement/#comments-wrapper

Rubin does it again:

"The media took the results of two unrepresentative, lily-white states and the Nevada caucuses (not a primary, which as we saw on Tuesday night leads to wildly different outcomes) as definitive proof of former vice president Joe Biden’s demise"