Most likely minority voters sense that Bernie is rooted in a much older left, a paradigm that has has fallen out of favor since the 1960s. In this tradition it is white paternalism, opposition to working class based oppression, and utopian democratic...often tinged with lyrical affection to "green" romanticism.
Hillary, however, understands that left populism based on gender, race, and ethnicity are where the new votes are. In the newer tradition the victim class is expanded to include just about anyone with some kind of "different" identity - most them more important than class: not only women and blacks, but also Hispanics, Muslims, gays, transgenders, disabled, teachers, government workers, immigrants, etc.
Under the newer paradigm, the 500K a year white woman executive who has hit "the glass ceiling" is a victim, just like the lettuce picking immigrant field hand.
Bernie, one senses, does not buy it. And as long as people buy the modern formulation, Hillary benefits.
