Who Is Arizona?

Who Is?

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🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In 2020, Arizona and Georgia, two traditionally red states, turned blue. And while Stacey Abrams has received a lot of credit and media attention for the organizing that led to Georgia turning blue, what happened in Arizona? Is there a Stacey Abrams of Arizona? To find out, Sean Morrow spoke with some of the observers who saw it coming and one of the organizers who made it happen, and discovered that Arizona turning blue is about communities organizing around civil rights, about demographic change, and about activated Tribal Nations who are aware of the unique relationship between Native Americans and the federal government.

Patty Ferguson-Bohnee, a Professor at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. Ferguson-Bohnee is director of the Indian Legal Clinic at ASU, and serves as the Native Vote Election Protection Coordinator for the State of Arizona
Phoenix City Councilmember Carlos Garcia, a longtime organizer who represents Phoenix’s 8th City Council District
Terry Greene Sterling, an author and journalist who has been writing about Arizona for many years. Her forthcoming book, co-authored with Jude Joffe-Block, is “Driving While Brown: Sheriff Joe Arpaio Versus the Latino Resistance”

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0:00.0	Are you 100% sure of that call and when you made it and why did you make it?
0:05.6	Absolutely. We made it after basically a half hour of debating. Is it time yet? Because it's been
0:11.1	clear for a while that the former vice president is in the lead in Arizona and was most likely to
0:17.2	win the state. It has been in the category that we call knowable but not callable
0:21.9	for about an hour. We finally called it right now. Yes, there are some outstanding votes in Arizona.
0:29.8	Most of them are coming from Maricopa, where Biden is currently in a very strong position.
0:35.3	And many of them are mail-in votes where we know from our Fox News
0:38.7	voter analysis, Biden has an advantage. Before 2020, Arizona had only voted for a Democratic president
0:44.7	once since Harry Truman in 1948. But in 2020, something changed. Former Vice President Joe Biden
0:53.6	won Arizona by 10,457 votes. And yeah,
0:59.1	even Fox News was surprised. Arizona didn't turn blue because people were out just embracing the Democratic Party. Arizona turned blue because those who
1:15.1	were struggling for their civil rights turned to the Democrats because the Republicans
1:20.5	didn't offer them any kind of equity. We, like the news media, have talked a lot about how Georgia, a reliable Republican hotbed, went for the Democrats this year, both its electoral votes and its Senate seats.
1:36.4	Georgia's political shift wasn't an overnight phenomenon.
1:39.6	It happened after decades of organizing, for which Stacey Abrams has gotten a lot of well-deserved
1:45.4	credit. But what happened in Arizona? A state that produced Republicans like John McCain,
1:52.0	Sandra Day O'Connor, Barry Goldwater, Joe Arpaio, and Megan McCain. What's the story here?
1:58.0	Is there a Stacey Abrams of Arizona? Is it about the Democrats figuring out a message that resonates with voters?
2:04.6	Sorry, that wasn't meant to be a joke.
2:07.3	On this episode of Who Is, we're going to try to figure out what happened,
2:11.5	why a reliably red state turned blue.
2:15.1	So, who is Arizona?
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