The Latinx Vote Comes Of Age

Code Switch

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4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

For the first time in election history, Latinos are projected to be the second-largest voting demographic in the country. The reason? Gen Z Latinx voters, many of whom are casting a ballot for the first time in 2020. So we asked a bunch of them: Who do you plan to vote for? What issues do you care about? And what do you want the rest of the country to know about you?

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0:00.0	I'm Shireen Marisol Miraji.
0:01.8	I'm Jean Demby and this is Code Switch.
0:05.4	From NPR.
0:06.6	All right, so you got the Black vote, you got the Eupho,
0:09.5	you got the Women's vote, etc, etc.,
0:13.2	Perennial voter demographic stories.
0:16.0	We've all heard them, we hear them every time there's an election.
0:18.7	And I don't know about you, Jean,
0:20.4	but my instinct is to deeply sigh and to roll my eyes
0:24.4	whenever I come across one of these
0:26.0	because they're usually so played.
0:29.6	So played.
0:30.5	And telling me, Shireen, we have just a grip of shorthands
0:33.0	and euphemisms for white people, for white voters,
0:35.6	middle America, rural voters, blue collar voters,
0:39.0	the working class, soccer moms, even evangelicals,
0:42.3	the size of the majority.
0:43.2	I mean, damn.
0:44.3	So many.
0:44.9	So many ways to say white.
0:46.8	So many ways to say white.
0:48.4	Well, this time around, there's some codes
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