This Majority-Minority City Voted For Donald Trump

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🗓️ 27 February 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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As part of our Where Voters Are series, NPR's Ari Shapiro and Colorado Public Radio's Bente Birkeland share their reporting from Pueblo, Colorado.

Over the next several months, NPR will feature stories from eight communities around the country as our reporters embed in the community to report on the wide array of issues that will shape voters' choices this election cycle.

This episode: congressional correspondent Kelsey Snell, All Things Considered host Ari Shapiro, and Colorado Public Radio reporter Bente Birkeland.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:05.8	It is 150 PM on Thursday, February 27th here in Washington, DC.
0:11.2	And it's 11.50 AM here in Pueblo, Colorado.
0:14.0	And I'm Kelsey Snell and we're doing something a little bit different today.
0:17.4	I'm Ari Shapiro.
0:18.4	I'm one of the hosts of NPR's all things considered.
0:20.6	I'm Benta Berkland, a political reporter at Colorado Public Radio.
0:24.2	NPR is launching a series of work calling where voters are.
0:28.5	We've got teams of NPR reporters teaming up with local member station reporters to get
0:33.4	a better sense of the stories driving their communities ahead of the 2020 election.
0:38.0	And to start with, tell me why you are in Pueblo.
0:40.9	You know, Pueblo is kind of, it was first described to me as the rust belt of Colorado.
0:44.8	Its nickname is Steel City.
0:46.2	When you drive up, there is this enormous steel mill who silhouette kind of like defines
0:50.5	the outline of the city.
0:52.3	Today, it's owned by a Russian company at an employees about 10% of the people that
0:56.6	it did at its peak right now, like only 6% of Pueblo's population works in manufacturing.
1:02.7	But this city was built on waves of immigrants.
1:05.9	So you drive around town and you can see like, oh, that's the Slovenian neighborhood.
1:09.8	That's the Mexican neighborhood.
1:10.9	That's the Italian neighborhood.
1:12.2	I mean, I went to this Italian deli named Gaglionos that's been owned by the same family
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