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“Asked about the shocking recent Democratic victories in his home state, he said only that “The people have spoken articulately, and I have nothing to add.”
Asked what he made of the dispute over a border wall in the Big Bend region, where Jones has spent considerable time both filming and living, he offered a characteristically terse, diplomatic response: “I don’t like bigotry, and I love people.”
“It’s been said that the mother of Texas is Mexico,” he added. “We don’t know who the father is, but we think it’s Tennessee.”
He delivered the punchline without a trace of a smile.—New York Times
