Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Rudi And The Florida Connection

The 2000 Census revealed that, between 1995 and 2000 alone, 308,000 people moved from New York to Florida – the largest state-to-state flow in the U.S. At last count, nearly 1.5 million Floridians were born in New York, including five members from Florida’s current House delegation. Two are Democrats born in Queens: Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Robert Wexler. The three Republicans were born outside New York City: Ginny Brown-Waite was born in Albany, John Mica in Binghamton and Dave Weldon in Amityville.

"Assuming Florida is a key battleground state again, the Florida-New York connection is an interesting wild card in the Presidential election for Rudy (as well as Hillary Clinton presumably, but to a lesser extent). Moreover, this raw number of immigrants may understate the New York influence on Florida--my in-laws, for instance, are NYC-Florida snowbirds who hold Florida as their primary residence. They don't seem atypical in this. Many Floridians seem to remain very attached to New York, even going so far as to maintain their allegiance to the Knicks, a demonstration of how deep their roots run."

Parts of Florida are indeed becoming NYC-South, but here's the real scoop. The uber majority of the snowbirds from New Yawk are retirees of means. People who after WWII called themselves liberals for a lot of reasons, none of them being they didn't know what a good fight was and hadn't had been through scrape or two to prove it. I see them every day. I'm also originally from NY, but of the generation that uses a personal computer and understands that "liberal" doesn't describe Thomas Jefferson anymore. The senior lady citizens but of course want peace for all mankind, and the senior gentleman citizens want us to nuke Iraq, Iran, most of the middle east, and parts of Canada just for good measure. They believe Bush to be a wuss of the highest magnitude, BUT do tend to somewhat fall for liberal claptrap far too often. Bottom line is that they are NOT voting for Hillary, not in great numbers anyway, but WOULD vote for Julie Annie for the obvious reasons.

The Floridian "immigrants" who vote the straight liberal ticket are the hispanics. And the blacks. Bear in mind though, that Florida remains very PRO-GUN so there still are not nearly enough of the Miami-Lice to toss the state deeply into the Dumocrap column. It can and often is touch and go when the old folks get confused. Thats part of what I do on a regular basis. Deliver to them what is really happening in the world, via an every-Monday "World Issues" seminar. I interface with hundreds of them and fully understand the fear that liberals place in their minds.

Julie Annie would win Florida. His pro-choice stance alone would sooth the baby-factory minority moms who need to dump that occasional unwanted pregnancy and he DID hold NYC together during its darkest days. The Brits burning most of it to the ground notwithstanding, that is. He'd tour the Gunshine State and say all the right things to garner the NRA's support, the old folks love him, and the Miami minorities would be assured of maintaining their special-citizen status. And there's not a bloody thing that I or a hundred like me can do about the minority and snowbird love for Julie. Ain't happening.

Another interesting tidbit is that the ladies simply adore Fred Thompson. Since all of the Law & Order's are chick-fare, they'd be hard pressed to choose between he and Annie, but I still think they'd stick with their hometown hero. Now if Fred or Julie ran as one another's Vice Presidential candidate?

They'd swamp Rodham like nobody's business.

Thanks to JR for sending this my way.

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