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Friend,
I remember the process of beginning to realize what it meant to be from
somewhere.
After I got to college on the East Coast, a well-meaning friend once
admitted she could never quite keep straight whether I was from Iowa,
Idaho, or Indiana. Things like that shifted my relationship to my
hometown, making me appreciate where I came from more, precisely because
of how overlooked and underestimated it was to some.
Maybe you know something of that feeling.
I've been thinking about it a lot this year, traveling to places that
remind me of my home in “flyover country.” Montana. Oklahoma. Rural North
Carolina and Georgia. Places where pundits don’t expect Democrats to have
any business showing up.
A few weeks ago I was in Butte, Montana, campaigning to get corporate
money out of state politics. The next day I was in a barn with string
lights in western NC, stumping for a fourth-generation farmer running for
Congress in a district Trump carried by ten points.
I go to these places because people can tell the difference between a
political project that writes off their county and one that shows up and
makes the case. The defiant pride in where you come from that I felt as a
young man? I see it everywhere – in Tulsa, in Butte, in the Lehigh Valley,
in places that have been told again and again that nobody's coming.
We're coming. But only if we have the resources to do it.
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Thank you,
Pete
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Pete Buttigieg is a husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner.
He formerly served as the 19th US Secretary of Transportation and Mayor of
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