What Does a Blue Texas Mean for America?
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The New Yorker Radio Hour is a co-production of WNYC and the New Yorker. This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Ramnick. Демітер зверл. Ферст блак вумен губерна. The first Muslim US Senator First openly gay man in the Senate.
Red state after red state after red state. Elected their first демократ in decades. But maybe the most momentous finishes might have been in Texas. James Tallerico and Gina Inahoosa became the first Democrats to win the Senate seat and the governorship in over thirty years. Remember an important thing.
Texas is the second largest state in the Union. with four of the ten largest cities. If Texas voting blue is a trend and not a blip. That really represents a sea change in American politics. So how did it happen?
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