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Campaigned on being a working-class bartender — her childhood home was in an affluent Westchester suburb

"I'm the daughter of a working-class family."

AOC's campaign narrative centered on growing up working-class in the Bronx. Reporting revealed her family moved to Yorktown Heights in Westchester County — an affluent suburb — when she was five, and she attended school there.

Date
July 1, 2018
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article