'We can't go around thanking black women for powering Democrats to victory all over the country, and then at the same time hold our first caucus and our first primary in states that have almost no African-Americans,' Secretary JulianCastro told Vogue.
"I actually do believe that we do need to change the order of the states," Castro said in an interviewon Sunday from, yes, Iowa. "Demographically, it’s not reflective of the U.S. as a whole, certainly not reflective of the Democratic Party, and I believe other states should have their chance."
Castro raised the point thoughtfully, almost methodically, as if he knew he was wading into prickly territory. After all, he was, and still is, currently campaigning in Iowa himself. But whenreached him by phone on Monday afternoon, Castro went further on his comments, calling out the hypocrisy of giving a comparatively small cluster of white Democrats the privilege of picking the presidential favorite.
"We can't go around thanking black women for powering Democrats to victory all over the country, and then at the same time hold our first caucus and our first primary in states that have almost no African-Americans," Secretary Castro told.
Castro concedes that the third and fourth primary states, Nevada and South Carolina, which come almost a month later, are more racially diverse. But he also says that the first states of primary season can make or break a candidate's momentum. "Nobody can pretend that the first one or two states don't have an oversized influence on what happens in the whole process," he said.
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