The Making of a Blue City Warrior

Part Two of the Blue City Warrior Visits Red America series

Both of my deepest identities — as a Blue voter and as a city lover — stem from my childhood, and the time and the community that I grew up in.

I was born in 1964, one day before the U.S. Senate passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and much of my childhood was influenced by it and the changes it instigated in the country…