‘A Long Misunderstood Region’

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Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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America hit 100,000 new coronavirus cases for the first time today. Unlike the wave in the spring, this one is spread across the country and especially hitting rural communities. Carlos Sanchez, the head of public affairs for Hidalgo County in south Texas, talks about the fight that he and his home have had against COVID. Read his story in The Atlantic here. And read Adam Serwer on a Blue Texas here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jim.
0:05.0	Hi, Catherine.
0:07.0	We're recording this at about what 1 PM on Wednesday, Eastern and we don't know who the president is.
0:13.2	Did you stay up late last night?
0:15.7	For me, yeah.
0:16.5	I know you hate to sleep.
0:17.8	I was up past midnight.
0:19.0	I don't hate to sleep.
0:19.9	I think it's quite good for you.
0:21.6	You just hate personally to take care of yourself, yeah. I know I need to.
0:27.4	But it was interesting in Brooklyn everyone voted like a week before the election and I did it on election day and there was no
0:36.1	in there.
0:37.1	Mm.
0:38.1	Which was a collective experience I think for a lot of people.
0:41.0	What about you did you stay up all night in Texas? I was up till like yeah midnight and then you know
0:48.8	we're gonna see um but I will say Texas is usually never really much talked about in presidential elections.
0:58.0	And it was quite a bit. People were paying attention very closely to what was going on in Texas and even down to sort of county by county levels which was very interesting felt like hadn't seen that before that level of attention being paid to specific regions in Texas.
1:16.3	Did you notice that too?
1:17.9	Oh yeah, and Adam Ser were wrote about Texas for us and it seems from what I understand that the state will be eventually
1:25.9	changing its political orientation to be blue at some point in the future and it's just a question
1:31.8	of how long?
1:33.4	I mean I think that's part of the assumption but I do think there's been there was some
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