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We Mapped Every Place Mentioned by the Democratic Candidates
From candidate hometowns to international crisis spots, here are all the cities mentioned by Democratic presidential contenders at this week’s debates.
The most electric moment in the two nights of Democratic debates in Miami this week involved a candidate talking about where she grew up. That was Senator Kamala Harris, who lived in the lower-income “flatlands” of Berkeley, California, as a young child. There, thanks that city’s then-pioneering school integration efforts, she rode a bus up to Thousand Oaks Elementary School, where she attended classes with the children of the city’s more affluent white residents.
“You know,” Harris said, turning to former Vice President Joe Biden, “there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bused to school every day. And that little girl was me.”