At least in the South, white Democratic legislators are an endangered species - replaced by either white Republicans or African American or Hispanic Democrats. This was a purposeful result of redistricting.

Why would minority legislators in the South expend political capital to go to bat for the interests of, say, feminists, when they can make their constituents happy by working with Republicans on matters of mutual concern like criminal justice reform? Unless white liberals can find a way to bring everyone into the fold, they may find that there are huge swaths of the country where no one representing their interests at all.