Excuse me, you all registered the boat?

Are you doing well?

All right, all right, you registered the boat?

All right.

The man trying to register voters is Patrick Penn, a voter registration coordinator with

an organization called the New Florida Majority that's trying to mobilize the state's diverse

communities ahead of the next election.

This is important work that needs to happen in every state, but especially in the southeastern

battlegrounds.

If a record number of black and brown voters can register, show up, and have their ballots

counted in Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina, they could very well deliver the presidency

and the Senate to Democrats in 2020.

Today, the southeast is being shaped by many of the same political and demographic trends

that have transformed the southeastern battlegrounds we covered in the last episode.

The cities and surrounding suburbs are growing, they're becoming younger and more diverse,

and they're home to college-educated voters who are increasingly rejecting Trump's Republican

party.

And while white voters in the southeast have always been more conservative than their counterparts

in the southwest, the region also has a larger, faster-growing population of black voters

than anywhere else in the country.

That's a big reason why Andrew Gillham came so close to becoming the first black governor

of Florida in 2018.

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