Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:FL is turning purple with all the transplants. When it turns blue they will start a Civil War before they believe it.
It was turning blue, but the Cubans took a sharp turn to the right last election. Those forecasts of Florida being solidly dem have been revised - I think the blue wave they expected from formerly ineligible to vote felons and newcomers didn’t materialize as much as they expected, and the Cuban shift caught them by surprise. It will be red for a while longer at least.
Anonymous wrote:FL is turning purple with all the transplants. When it turns blue they will start a Civil War before they believe it.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:FL is turning purple with all the transplants. When it turns blue they will start a Civil War before they believe it.
It was turning blue, but the Cubans took a sharp turn to the right last election. Those forecasts of Florida being solidly dem have been revised - I think the blue wave they expected from formerly ineligible to vote felons and newcomers didn’t materialize as much as they expected, and the Cuban shift caught them by surprise. It will be red for a while longer at least.
Anonymous wrote:The further north you go in Florida the further south it feels.
Anonymous wrote:FL is turning purple with all the transplants. When it turns blue they will start a Civil War before they believe it.
Anonymous wrote:All of my in-laws and people I know that live near Tampa/St. Pete are super liberal. I don't have experience though with more northern parts of Florida.
but frequently in those stories, you find the man is origionally from NY or Michigan-seems like always those states!Anonymous wrote:FL is turning purple with all the transplants. When it turns blue they will start a Civil War before they believe it.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm on the gulf coast near the hurricane. Former upstate New Yorker, then DC, then Florida. My neighbors (all of whom are friends) and closest friends are: Bethesda, California, northern Virginia, Bend Oregon, Georgetown DC, Miami cuban, LA, Boulder, UK, Minnesota, California...and a handful of local born and raised. My husband was raised on the gulf coast of Florida and it was redneck then (in the 80s) even though it was a lot of New Yorkers and texans. But in our circles, it is very liberal.
Where on the Gulf Coast are you? St Pete? Sarasota west of the Trail?
Yes, though friends are all over sarasota.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm on the gulf coast near the hurricane. Former upstate New Yorker, then DC, then Florida. My neighbors (all of whom are friends) and closest friends are: Bethesda, California, northern Virginia, Bend Oregon, Georgetown DC, Miami cuban, LA, Boulder, UK, Minnesota, California...and a handful of local born and raised. My husband was raised on the gulf coast of Florida and it was redneck then (in the 80s) even though it was a lot of New Yorkers and texans. But in our circles, it is very liberal.
Where on the Gulf Coast are you? St Pete? Sarasota west of the Trail?
Anonymous wrote:I'm on the gulf coast near the hurricane. Former upstate New Yorker, then DC, then Florida. My neighbors (all of whom are friends) and closest friends are: Bethesda, California, northern Virginia, Bend Oregon, Georgetown DC, Miami cuban, LA, Boulder, UK, Minnesota, California...and a handful of local born and raised. My husband was raised on the gulf coast of Florida and it was redneck then (in the 80s) even though it was a lot of New Yorkers and texans. But in our circles, it is very liberal.