COLUMN: Are Democratic socialists a white political movement? It seems so

Some interesting numbers: New York's 13th Congressional District, covering Northern Manhattan and part of the Bronx, is 52% Hispanic, 23% Black and only 14% white. Yet in June's Democratic primary, voters dumped five-term Rep. Adriano Espaillat, head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, for Democratic Socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier, a ditzy 32-year-old grad student at Columbia University.Here's the wild part. Mostly Hispanic areas went for Espaillat by about 15 points. Mostly Black areas went for him, too, by 2 points. So how did he lose?kAm%H@ H2JDik^Am kAm}@] `i %96 s$p EFC?65 @FE :ED 32D6 @7 J@F?8[ 4@==686\65F42E65 G@E6CD[ >2?J @7 E96> H9:E6 ?6H4@>6CD 86?EC:7J:?8 E9:D EC25:E:@?2==J w:DA2?:4 2?5 q=24< 5:DEC:4E]k^AmkAm}@] ai }6H *@C@4C2E:4 AC:>2C:6D 2C6 4=@D65 E@ :?56A6?56?E G@E6CD :? 2 4:EJ H96C6 23@FE 2 BF2CE6C @7 C68:DE6C65 {2E:?@D 2C6 :?56A6?56?ED] pG:=2 r96G2=:6C H@? 3J a[b__ G@E6D :?

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