flipping the border. I'm Scott I with Bill Whittle and Stephen Green. This episode of Right

Angle is brought to you by the members at Bill Whittle.com. And gentlemen, there is a story in the

New York Times that I wouldn't believe was in the New York Times, except that I read it in the New York

Times. And it is under the headline, an earthquake along the border, Trump flipped Hispanic South Texas. It turns out that the president,

the president-elect, won 12 of the region's 14 counties, those along the border with Mexico.

That is up from 2016 when he only won five of them. Here's the lead in the New York Times.

Nowhere in the United States have historically Democratic counties shifted so far and so fast in the direction of former President Donald J. Trump as they have in the Texas communities along the Rio Grande where Hispanic residents make up the overwhelming majority.

Gentlemen, this is not just breaking news. It is part of a longer-term trend where Donald Trump

has essentially gotten the Republican Party back to this idea that we represent working people.

And by we, I mean the Republican Party. Technically,

I'm in Texas and I don't have to register in any party. But to go from five counties, Stephen Green, in 2016, to 12 out of the 14 border counties, there were two basic messages, according

to this story, that were effective

along the border. Number one was the economy. People are very aware of what they pay for things,

and not only that, not only are things getting more expensive, but a lot of Latino and Hispanic

voters, both of which are terrible handles to refer to people by, but the

people who live in that area who speak Spanish, friend, come from Spanish-speaking countries,

both of that, they looked at this and they said, it looks like one party is determined to

destroy the oil industry and the natural gas industry, and that's where my brother and my dad

and my cousins all work. And so we don't want to

destroy that industry. So number one, you're trying to kill our jobs. Number two, everything's

more expensive at the grocery store. But the second major issue, Steve, was immigration and the

uncontrolled border. And many so-called Latinos living in those border counties along the Rio Grande were

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