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Ocasio-Cortez was born in the Bronx, New York City, on October 13, 1989, to Blanca Ocasio-Cortez (née Cortez) and Sergio Ocasio.
originally posted by: Aallanon
a reply to: EmmanuelGoldstein
So which one is which?
originally posted by: infolurker
a reply to: Aallanon
Progressives love to hyphenate their name.
Status symbol.
originally posted by: Aallanon
I am just curious. Does anyone know?
I tried Googling it but got no info.
So I put it to you ATS
Why the two last names?
ETA Also is she from Westchester or the Bronx? There are conflicting reports on that too.
The bio previously stated, “She ended up attending public school 40 minutes north in Yorktown, and much of her life was defined by the 40-minute commute between school and her family in the Bronx.” That sentence in the bio has since been changed, though it still doesn’t explicitly state that she moved out of the Bronx to Yorktown when she was 5 years old. “She ended up attending public school in Yorktown, 40 minutes north of her birthplace,” it now states. “As a result, much of her early life was spent in transit between her tight-knit extended family in the Bronx & her daily student life." Ocasio-Cortez was 2 years old when her father, Sergio Ocasio-Roman, bought a modest home in Yorktown for $150,000. The family lived in the Parkchester section of the Bronx at the time and moved to the house in Yorktown a few years later. Ocasio-Cortez graduated from Yorktown High School in 2007.
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