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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Libs hate Florida because people are happy. [/quote]

I’m a lib in FL and [b]I think the country is going to be surprised at how purple FL is becoming[/b]. We are moving into this beautiful sunshine and bringing change. We are not loud or boisterous (think crazies with guns). Jacksonville just elected its first female democratic mayor. There is a strong sense of hate for damnyankees and FL culture doesn’t take too kindly to us folk. Florida man is a real thing. We are about to start open carry. DeSantis is the second coming of Hitler. Many worship him. He’s obsessed with sexual orientation (are you thinking what I’m thinking? Poor confused child) He’s even getting into a di<k measuring contest with a mouse. Lots of crazy, insecure, uneducated people. [b]But things are changing[/b]. I have hope. I also have no bumper stickers on my car. [/quote]
according to whom? Where is your evidence for this? People always say this, but Florida has been moving rapidly to the right in recent years. DeSantis won by .4% in 2018. In 2022? 19 points. In 2016, Trump won the state by 1.3 points. In 2020, it was 3.3. I guess the Jacksonville mayor is one data point, but other than that...I'm not seeing it. We've been hearing about the "blueification" of FL (and TX!) for years- changing demographics, more transplants, etc. but it really hasn't panned out.

Never understood why people automatically equate transplants with a state becoming more liberal. Just because someone is from "up north" doesn't mean they're liberal necessarily. Many transplants are older, and old people tend to be more conservative. And my anecdotal experience is that the families that are moving down there from the NE tend to be more conservative and are trying to leave their liberal home states--so if anything, I'd say the "great migration" from up north down to FL has been a key contributor to the state becoming more conservative.

I believe it was in 2020 that there was a poll in TX that showed the voting patterns of transplants vs. native Texans. The transplants voted much more Republican. Which matches my own anecdotal experience, everyone I know who left CA for TX was doing so because they wanted to get away from the liberalism of CA and be among "like" people. [/quote]
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3998391-how-florida-became-a-conservative-bastion/

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Yep. Most of the people moving to Florida are Republicans.

"Estimates released by the Census Bureau in December showed that, for the first time since 1957, Florida became the fastest-growing state in the country, netting more than 400,000 new residents in the year between July 2021 and July 2022.

Those new arrivals, said Susan MacManus, a professional emeritus at the University of South Florida who specializes in Florida politics, have tilted heavily Republican.

During the pandemic, nearly 394,000 new voters moved into Florida, and nearly half of them — 46 percent — registered with the GOP, according to voter data from L2, a data vendor. Only about 23 percent registered to vote as Democrats.

Meanwhile, Florida’s electorate was shifting from within. Between January 2021 and September 2022, nearly 550,000 Florida voters changed their party affiliation, according to an analysis of state voter data by MacManus and her associates. Voters left the Democratic Party at nearly twice the rate as they left the GOP."[/quote]

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