[Corrie22]

Originally Posted by Ghaati

Not because of politics, but because - this is traditionally one of those places people retire to.

well something happened....because Florida went from solid democrat....to solid republican for the first time ever

Florida has always been a democrat state....and for the first time there's more republicans than democrats

[Ghaati]

Originally Posted by Corrie22

well something happened....because Florida went from solid democrat....to solid republican for the first time ever

Florida has always been a democrat state....and for the first time there's more republicans than democrats

Florida has been a swing state since the 1950's. It flips back and forth, with some predominately blue areas, and some predominately red.

[Ghaati]

Another piece of history: blue and red don't necessarily mean what you think they mean. When Florida was founded in 1845, it was a Confederate state. At that time, the Democrats were the Confederates, the Republicans were the Union. Confederate Democrats were the alt-right extremist conservatives, and the Union, the Republicans, were the progressive liberals.

That changed shortly after the Civil War, when the Union won and the Confederates lost. Many of the southern states still haven't gotten over that loss. Florida didn't fare as badly as some of its neighboring states, but it changed from SOLID "red" (alt-right extremist slave-trading, slave-raping, wife-beating, Native torturing, territorial refuseniks) to slightly red-leaning PURPLE. When the Dem/GOP switch occurred after the Civil War, it changed to blue-leaning purple. But that's because the blues were now the reds and vice versa. They didn't change their opinions, they just changed their names.