A Trump win, an urban high school and an American identity crisis

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : On Oct. 29, Trump held a rally at a downtown arena, just a few blocks from Building 21 high school.
65% : But they knew Trump and his "Make America Great Again" movement, which had dominated American politics since they were in elementary school and seemed likely to endure for years, if not decades, to come.
48% : "On election night, Isaiah watched as the TV networks called Pennsylvania for Trump and then stayed up through the former president's victory speech.
43% : In her civics class later that morning, Illianys asked how so many Latinos could vote for Trump "knowing that he has a plan to send immigrants back.
42% : Illianys texted her friend and asked him if he had voted for Trump.
42% : She thought about Trump, the next four years of her life and the country's fractious politics, which filled her not with a passion to fight but rather a feeling of pessimism and dread.
40% : Illianys found it baffling that Trump had received more support from Latino voters in 2024 than in his previous presidential runs, given his mass deportation pledge.
27% : One student said she had heard that Trump might order the military to round up people who are in the country illegally.
26% : This time Trump's victory was powered, in part, by Latino voters in places like Allentown and surrounding Lehigh County, where Trump cut his margin of defeat from nearly 8 points in 2020 to less than three.
25% : Almost all of Salter's students could quote racist or derogatory statements that Trump had made about Hispanics, Blacks or immigrants over the past nine years.
23% : Several said they feared that Trump would try to pass a nationwide abortion ban that would force them to have a child even if they were raped or their pregnancy endangered their life.

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