"Little did you know
Your home's really only a town you're just a guest in.
So you work your life away
Just to pay for a timeshare down in Destin."

Oh yeah, now putting this together with the fact that what set Anita Bryant off was Miami-Dade County passing an ordinance against discrimination by sexual orientation... in 1977! And that wasn't a little People's Republic of an urban area: it already had 1.5 million people that year.

People who moved to The Villages send my in-laws stuff that we have to keep rebutting. I worry about medical workers leaving the state because their jobs get harder and public sector services get worse.

In fact, it looks like in 1977, Miami-Dade County made up 17% of Florida's population.

Objectively, it might be good for the rest of the county if Florida had trouble recruiting medical people, but it would be a problem for people I know.

From the first link:

Once a top presidential battleground, the state is lost to Democrats. The party's missteps, along with demographic change, led to every one of Florida's 67 counties becoming more red.

The US is famously a one-party state where the Democrats are responsible for everything. That's how the Republicans took control.

Honestly, I'm surprised Florida's hard right turn took this long. I've only been to Florida once, 25 years ago, for a school trip, and I only know four things about it that seem relevant to politics:

1. It's a popular retirement destination.

1a. Being able to retire means being old and comfortably well-off, and both of those are correlated with being right-wing. (I'm tempted to add something about how people willing to move long distances to retire aren't very invested in their current community, which also means right-wing, but that's a can of worms I think I'd regret opening.)

2. It's close to Cuba and has a lot of Cuban refugees.

2a. Lots of Cuban refugees were fans of the Batista dictatorship, or aside from that are definitely not fans of the current left-wing dictatorship there or else they'd still be there, and they may view American politics through the lens of the systems they left behind.

The Southern strategy is also relevant but seems superfluous.

It's interesting to me that Venezuelans and Cubans are getting deported. It shows the blind, racist rage of this administration that it is eliminating people who are demographically inclined to be supporters.

Trump obviously hates nearly all of his supporters.

Hispanics swung more to Trump than ever (still unclear if actually a majority, exit polls vary), you'd think there'd be some collective striving to start to match their internal prejudices, especially with Rubio there as whisperer, but all the staffers are white-style gutter racists so they're basically doing their best for a national Prop 187 effect.

What's the gender gap on Hispanic voters? I have a belief that sexism trumped racism, which would be substantiated if hispanic men are driving the swing.

Hispanics* can be racist too! Extremely so, in some cases. Just in somewhat different patterns. Anti-Black shines through of course.

But to estimate the gender gap... CNN exit poll had Latino men 54-44 Trump, Latina women 58-39 Harris. So a gender gap of 31 points.

*I feel better about conveniently using the word "Hispanic" here because the Trump voters in question are probably less into "Latino", or god forbid, "Latinx."

I'm trying to make "Latiny" happen.

I'm trying to pronounce Latinx like Spanx.

Because Hispanic people are always right on my ass.

Everyone wants to tap that.

No more masturbating to David Horowitz.

Ogged.

I bet the "It's no big deal to say Latinx but it's ok if you don't" vote was very Democratic.

I saw a May Day flyer reading "PODER A LOS TRABAJADORXS," and now every time I go to the office I feel like a trabajadork.

I lol'd.

14: Yeah, you put the accent on the second syllable so it's luh-TINKS and then it's pronouncable. (Still stupid, Latin or Latine are obviously better choices.)

At any rate, if you look at Latin American history it shouldn't be terribly surprising that rightwing populist authoritarianism has some popular appeal among some Latin Americans. I think one reasonable lens is just Latin-US politics becoming more similar to the rest of Latin America.

That was me.

Yeah, the majority of pre-PRI Mexican history is presidents getting elected, taking way too much power for themselves, but not managing to keep it very long before they were ousted and some sort of new elections were held (except Porfirio Diaz who finessed autocratic power longer). Maybe Trump is us regressing to that mean.

I am always startled that anyone pronounce Latinx in any way other than Lah-TEEN-ex, just like Lah-TEEN-oh for Latino. I don't have occasion to say it hardly ever, but from reading it I have strong opinions about pronunciation.

I've never heard the word or used it aloud.

I was 100% joking about the Spanx pronunciation.

On the rare occasion I hear it these days, it's more like "Latin Eks", as in "Google X".

I wasn't being serious. Nonetheless that is a way to make it actually pronounceable that I have heard, but I think it's usually tongue-in-cheek.

I thought it was pronounced to rhyme with "winks"