New hires from across the country and abroad are snapping up just-built Spanish-tiled houses nearby, and schools are already adding semiconductor trainings.
But on the other side of the fence, roadside vendors are doing brisk business opposing President Biden.
Each morning, they hoist Confederate flags and lay out tables of Trump hats and crude banners deriding Mr. Biden.
Arizona feels like a place where nearly all of 2024’s pivotal political clashes are converging.
It is a border state bristling with active fault lines on abortion, inflation, immigration and election conspiracies, where vast demographic changes have shifted Arizona from reliably Republican and seldom contested in national politics to a desert hothouse.
Persons:
Biden, Trump, Mr, “, ”, Mike Conley, ’
Locations:
Phoenix, Arizona, California