Wall Street Journalさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Wall Street JournalInstagram)「In Rio Grande City, Texas, a half-mile north of the U.S.-Mexico border, Elizabeth Lazo and her family all voted for President Trump. On the rest of the ballot, they supported Democrats.⠀ ⠀ Like other small-business owners, the Lazos were hit hard by the Covid-19 recession. Lazo said she supported Trump because she believed he would better help small businesses like their family-owned mattress and clothing stores, in addition to keeping their customers afloat. They worried Joe Biden would hurt the oil industry.⠀ ⠀ “For our community, all the good work is in the oil lines,” Lazo, who doesn’t speak English, said in Spanish. “There are no factories here. No work. The biggest thing is Walmart. ”⠀ ⠀ In the surrounding Starr County, which Hillary Clinton won by a 60-point margin in 2016, voters favored Joe Biden over President Trump by just 5 points—marking the largest swing to Trump of any county in the U.S. In nearby Zapata County, Clinton won by 33 points in 2016. This year, Trump took it by 6 points. ⠀ ⠀ The falloff of support in the historically loyal but socially conservative region signals trouble for a Democratic Party seeking to hold together a broad voter constituency. Many counties in this stretch of South Texas are more than 90% Hispanic and traditionally the state’s bluest. It is a place that Democrats counted on, and, according to residents here, didn’t understand enough to see what was coming.⠀ ⠀ “There’s a lot of parallels between a community that’s 96% Hispanic and a community that’s 96% white,” said Freddy Guerra, a former mayor of nearby Roma, Texas. “Racism is not something that people deal with in Starr County because everybody’s brown. Climate change isn’t something they feel. They prefer bread on the table.”⠀ ⠀ Read more at the link in our bio.⠀ ⠀ 📷: @brendabazan for @wsjphotos」11月11日 4時55分