All Things Considered co-host Ari Shapiro is on a road trip leading up to the inauguration of Donald Trump on Jan. 20. He is driving through North Carolina and Virginia, on the way to Washington, D.C. These are two swing states that went in opposite directions in November, each by a close margin: North Carolina for Trump, Virginia for Hillary Clinton. As the country faces dramatic changes, we're asking people what they want from that change — and what concerns them. A quarter-century ago, North Carolina's Yadkin County had more than 350 tobacco farms. Now that number is down to just a few dozen. Chuck Wooten's farm was among those tobacco farms. It has been in his family for at least five generations. Now, the land sprouts soybeans, pumpkins, strawberries. Farming's not the only thing that has been in his family a long time, he explains. "Some people love sports, some people love hunting, some people love fishing. My dad loved politics," Wooten says. Wooten takes after his dad — and he
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