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LIVE From South Texas: Purple State?

LIVE From South Texas: Purple State?

FromIn The Thick


LIVE From South Texas: Purple State?

FromIn The Thick

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Length:
41 minutes
Released:
Mar 5, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In Texas, 40 percent of the state is Latinx and by 2022 Latinos are expected to be the largest demographic group in Texas, surpassing non-Hispanic white people. Maria and Julio discuss the demographic and political changes that Texas is going through. For this live show from the Borderland, they're joined by Cristina Tzintzún Ramírez, executive director of Jolt, and Efrén Olivares, racial and economic justice program director with the Texas Civil Rights Project.      ITT Staff Picks:


As demographics shift, Latinos in Texas are claiming the majority and seeing themselves in the center of the national story, by Michelle García in Guernica's series, Rewriting the West

Latino turnout surged in the 2018 Midterms. Then Texas questioned 98,000 voters’ citizenship, by Roque Planas in HuffPost

Democrats had historic gains in Texas in 2018. They're setting their sights on even more in 2020, via The Texas Tribune
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Released:
Mar 5, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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Journalists tell you what you’re missing from the mainstream news. Co-hosted by award-winning journalists Maria Hinojosa and Julio Ricardo Varela, IN THE THICK has the conversations about race, identity and politics few people are discussing or want to discuss.