The Listening Well

Purple is the new Orange

Episode Summary

How does a community--long known as a conservative powerhouse-- shift? How does it move just enough to the left to become one of the few remaining counties in the country to be up for grabs politically?

Episode Notes

One Southern California county, that was once a conservative bastion, has become a political battleground.

We're talking about Orange County, California, the GOP stronghold for much of the last century. There, a new political culture has been taking shape.

As part of our series "Divided States: Efforts to Pull Together When things Fall Apart," reporter J.P. Dabu takes us into this now purple region. We explore the political shift through the lives of two Orange County residents witnessing the drama unfold ...