for those who don’t know, florida isn’t that much different from many large states, with a lot of land where the bumfuck uneducated hick counties with a population of 3000 are overwhelmingly republican, while the counties with smart people–cities; college towns-- are >80% blue
what sets florida apart is that this is where rich retired entitled myshitdontstink republicans go to live the final years of their asshole lives and vote red. google “florida the villages” --yea, that’s real life. also google “FL villages STDs”-- that’s also real life
tl;dr: desantis is a useless sack of shit who accomplished literally nothing in life. except pick a fight with disney LOL
Having been born there and live there until just a few years after Covid. The people moving there did a number on the state. Between the “Freedom” crowd, Michael Flynn (muliple rabbit holes on this topic), Moms for Liberty, “health freedom”, which is fucking up every hospital board, and honestly much, much more. That state will be deep read for a very long time.
i don’t remember tampa being as red as the redneck shithole towns, plus they have USF. st pete is definitely dark blue, clearwater might be the reddest “city” in that area (scientology owns most of it). not as familiar with jacksonville, but it probably is more red than the rest
pretty much. st pete has been building a lot of “investment” housing under the guise of being “affordable” housing to displace results by out of state and investors. not that I don’t like other people, but it’s what it is now. I mean I debated renting a place for $450 to do art at and that the last time I was there is now $6000+ and it’s everywhere around here. It’s like oh yeah the rent is now 5k-6k-8k++ a month … my first car cost $600 to drive down town.
for those who don’t know, florida isn’t that much different from many large states, with a lot of land where the bumfuck uneducated hick counties with a population of 3000 are overwhelmingly republican, while the counties with smart people–cities; college towns-- are >80% blue
what sets florida apart is that this is where rich retired entitled myshitdontstink republicans go to live the final years of their asshole lives and vote red. google “florida the villages” --yea, that’s real life. also google “FL villages STDs”-- that’s also real life
tl;dr: desantis is a useless sack of shit who accomplished literally nothing in life. except pick a fight with disney LOL
how’s that going, btw?
Having been born there and live there until just a few years after Covid. The people moving there did a number on the state. Between the “Freedom” crowd, Michael Flynn (muliple rabbit holes on this topic), Moms for Liberty, “health freedom”, which is fucking up every hospital board, and honestly much, much more. That state will be deep read for a very long time.
So glad I moved.
At least until half of it is under water and it’s government collapses lol
Concur. I moved there in 1997… got out in 2024. The covid years brought the worst people of every other state.
That’s part of it, but also the DNC actively failed Florida. That race was 100% winnable with more resources.
oh well. I guess the fascists need somewhere to retreat to. May as well be somewhere that’s going to be underwater in the near future.
Tampa and Jacksonville are probably the two biggest red cities in the country ain’t they? At least historically
Did you mean Blue?
i don’t remember tampa being as red as the redneck shithole towns, plus they have USF. st pete is definitely dark blue, clearwater might be the reddest “city” in that area (scientology owns most of it). not as familiar with jacksonville, but it probably is more red than the rest
pretty much. st pete has been building a lot of “investment” housing under the guise of being “affordable” housing to displace results by out of state and investors. not that I don’t like other people, but it’s what it is now. I mean I debated renting a place for $450 to do art at and that the last time I was there is now $6000+ and it’s everywhere around here. It’s like oh yeah the rent is now 5k-6k-8k++ a month … my first car cost $600 to drive down town.
Fuck it. They can suffer with the rest of us