Del Tachi
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« on: July 23, 2021, 10:00:11 AM » |
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Florida was only so close during the 1990s and 2000s thanks to the influence of G.I./Silent Generation retirees from the Northeast and Midwest. That demographic has now been replaced by a more conservative set of Boomer retirees.
There is no conceptual reason a state like Florida (i.e., old, Evangelical/Catholic, lots of Cubans, exurban, not particularly college-educated, mostly Southern, etc.) should be anything other than a Lean R state. Republicans' recent gains can be understood as a revision to a historical mean.
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