There is a ludicrous myth being bandied about as part of the ‘conventional wisdom’ of cable news. It’s that the biggest obstacle Bernie Sanders faced is being unelectable. It’s not true. The real obstacle Bernie faces is that people think he’s unelectable.

I’d like to lay out one very realistic scenario in which Bernie Sanders could win a general election. This is not based on any wild theories or electoral magic. For our purposes, I am going to us this consensus map from 270towin, which is a collection of several different predictions.

The scenario is simple: Texas. Texas has been a deep red state for years, but recently it’s been drifting more and more blue. An article in the Washington Post gives a good overview of the demographic changes in Texas. In 2000, POC made up 47% of the Texan population, but it’s estimated to have grown to at least 58% by 2017, and at that rate it could be over 60% by now.

Much of that population is Latino, and given the example of the Nevada caucus, Sanders could take a massive portion of that vote, especially running against Trump, the wall-building, child-caging, family-separating racist.

The youth vote is another strong suit of Sanders’, which is a second great point in favor of a Sanders win in Texas. The rise in the blue vote in Texas is also a large part because of younger white voters trending much more heavily towards democrats. We can see this in Beto O’Rourke’s incredible challenge to Ted Cruz.

So it’s a very real possibility that Sanders could flip Texas in a general, and if Texas flips that’s the ballgame. Even losing every tossup state (which is very unlikely) a Texas win would mean victory. No other democrat has the youth appeal and Latino support along with extremely effective grassroots organization to pump up voter turnout. If every eligible Texan voted, Texas would probably be a fairly safe blue state.

There is just one example of how Bernie could win in the general. He has appeal with the working class and socialism appeals to the victims of capitalism found in the rust belt. He has such strong anti-establishment appeal that he could very well win over republican voters who went Trump entirely because of his anti-establishment rhetoric. So let’s stop saying that he’s unelectable.