And it was really enlightening to me, the idea that Colin Woodward has put forward there that you've got these regions in this country.

I think certainly rings true and to your point, Beth about sort of the history of both coasts.

We celebrate that and for the left coast at least this sort of intersection between Northam and the coast, the values that we have, sort of the history.

I think makes for, you know, part of coming back to that healthy competition, a real pursuit to try to figure out how to be as accessible and equitable to the constituencies in the state.

This is Sarah Stewart Holland and this is Beth Silverce. Thank you for joining us for Pantsuit Politics.

Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Pantsuit Politics. Today we are sharing the latest in our now what electoral series where we use Colin Woodward's regional framework to understand different parts of the country, particularly as we move closer and closer to the midterm elections.

Today we're going to be tackling El Norte and New Amsterdam, AKA Southern California, mainly Los Angeles and New York City.

We are doing that through a conversation with Felipe Fuentes and Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal and we can't wait for you to listen.

We're also going to share a conversation we had with Incrown, host of the very popular podcast typology and our outside of politics because we're talking about the anyogram you know it comes up all the time here at Pantsuit Politics and we love this conversation where we talked about the implications for the anyogram in politics and political conversations.

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Next up we'll share our conversation with Felipe Fuentes and Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal.

When we started this series, we wanted to bring greater understanding and depth for all of us to regions of the country where we might not live.

That's a little challenging for big cities like New York City and Los Angeles, cities that we many of us have visited, cities that many of us here reported on all the time, cities that occupy such an outside space and our cultural conversations.

And we thought it would be interesting to bring representatives from those two cities together to talk about what is missed in the national narrative and our cultural understanding of these two particular regions of the country.

So we are joined today by Felipe Fuentes, who served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council for three years and a member of the California State Assembly for five years.

He currently works as a lobbyist and we would be remiss if we did not mention that we've had the pleasure of spending time in person with Felipe and his wife, Lena.

They are wonderful people and supporters of Pancy Politics and we're delighted that he's here.

Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal currently represents District 67, which includes parts of Manhattan's Upper West Side and Hell's Kitchen neighborhoods in the New York State Assembly.

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