MS NOW’s Rosa Flores: Texas Latino Voters Saw Gina Hinojosa’s Victory as ‘The Return of the American Dream’

RUSH EXCERPT:

FLORES: “You know Rachel, I bet. Yes, yes, I’ve been thinking a lot about this. And I think the best way to explain that moment, and for all of those people in the room, a lot of them were from the Rio Grande Valley, where I grew up is by talking about the American dream and the in the Rio Grande Valley. I grew up there. I’m a valley girl. I grew up on a dirt road on food stamps. I didn’t know how to speak English. And my American dream when I was three years old was to get on a yellow bus to go to a Texas public school, because I knew that if I could learn how to speak English, I could be anyone I wanted to be when I grew up. And that was the strength of the American dream. And that was the the root of the American dream.”