Iowa and New Hampshire, two states widely seen as setting the tone for the presidential primary, have one major thing in common: They’re extremely white.

Both states' populations are roughly 90 percent white — a stark contrast with both the country, which is 60 percent white, and the Democratic Party’s base, nearly 40 percent of which is made up of people of color.

The Vox mentions Karthick Ramakrishnan, political-science professor at UC Riverside and Director of the Center for Social Innovation. He stated, ““Someone could point to Barack Obama, he won Iowa, so how could you say candidates of color are disadvantaged? In order to do well in these states, candidates of color have to run deracialized campaigns and that’s not helpful for the Democratic Party, which depends disproportionately on communities of color.”

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