LIVE From South Texas: Purple State?
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
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 TribuneFor information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
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| 0:39.1 | God that sound what is it we are in a gas station in mission Texas |
| 0:48.0 | and that's people coming in and out to get their gas and to also ready for this, Maria, to get their breakfast tacos. Breakfast tacos. Some of the best breakfast tacos I've ever had. The best breakfast tacos. |
| 0:52.0 | So we're here in Mission Texas, and you know, you're listening to In The FIC. |
| 0:57.0 | It's a podcast about |
| 1:04.1 | politics race and culture from a POC perspective. I'm Maria N'hosa and I'm |
| 1:03.9 | Juhre-Lau- Okay, so we have to get that done. Got that out of the way? |
| 1:06.7 | Because we are about to jump into our live recording that we did here at the end of February in Mission Texas in front of a live audience and |
| 1:16.6 | we're so excited to be on the border. |
| 1:18.6 | Oyame, by the way, there's no national emergency you guys. So there's no national emergency you guys. |
| 1:24.0 | So there's no national emergency just for people that are wondering like hey |
| 1:28.0 | Julio Maria is there a national emergency? |
| 1:30.0 | We're safe to our sport. |
| 1:31.0 | I know what the national emergency is. I just ate a breakfast |
| 1:33.2 | da Goyevin and it was like one of the ones that's not even on the menu. But listen, what is on the menu is the people who are part of our live |
| 1:41.6 | recording right here in Mission Texas. |
| 1:43.7 | Christina Cinsun, Ramirez is the executive director of Jolt and Efren Olivares is a racial and |
| 1:51.1 | economic justice program director with the Texas Civil Rights |
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