Pres Mike
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« on: April 19, 2023, 10:36:53 PM » |
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1. Mostly mass migrations of Americans towards the sunbelt. Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, Texas and Arizona have all exploded in population.
Most of the people moving to Florida are conservative. This means retiring boomers, middle class families, immigrants etc.
2. I also suspect Republicans deciding to make Florida "their state" just as Democrats made California their symbolic HQ
3. Finally, Democrats in Florida kinda just gave up
In 2018, DeSantis won 4.076 million votes to Gillum 4.032 million with 62% turnout
In 2022, DeSantis won 4.6 million to Crist 3.1 million with 54% turnout
Its hard to calculate with population growth and turnout, but anywhere from 500-million Democratic voters were like "We aren't going to win, why bother"
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