The California town that could hold the key to control of the House in 2024
by Chris Stein in Delano, California from US news | The Guardian on (#6FSK4)
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When customers come in for a cut and a conversation at Miguel Navarro's barbershop, there's one topic they raise more than any other: gas prices.
A gallon of regular goes for about $5 in Delano, a farming town in California's Central Valley where in 1965, grape pickers staged a historic strike over bad pay and working conditions that led to the creation of the United Farm Workers (UFW) union, led by Cesar Chavez. Today, everyone in the city who can afford to do so drives, which means feeling the pain of California's pump prices, the highest in the nation.
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