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Immigration and agriculture are two keystones for defining Kern County’s heritage and personality. The farmworkers are a very big component of Kern County. They are the people who create the wealth. We have the largest grape grower in the world, Giumarra. We’ve got the biggest carrot company in the world, Grimmway. Agriculture is a very important part of our county. But although Kern County has made a lot of progress in the 40 years since I moved here, it still has a very backward type of identity. Back in the 1940s when “The Grapes of Wrath” was written, they had a book burning in Bakersfield. They banned it. Cesar Chavez and I were organizing in Kern County and co-founded the United Farmworkers union in the 1960s. Farmworkers were killed during the grape strike of 1973. In the movie “Bobby,” there is a scene where Sen. Bobby Kennedy tells the Kern County Sheriff to go read the constitution of the United States because they were arresting...

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