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TexasTowelie

(116,768 posts)
Sat Oct 2, 2021, 03:14 AM Oct 2021

DeSantis can't restrain his white-supremacist instincts, but maybe Florida voters will

Poor Gov. Ron DeSantis.

He’s working hard to keep Blacks and Latinos off the playing field in Florida with voting- and protest-suppression laws, banning sanctuary cities and, now, ordering law enforcement to profile immigrants on the road.

But, here’s a hefty dose of reality to smack the governor in the face.

It’s too late to fight the demographics. Florida is gaining more Latinos than any other state, except, predictably, Texas, concluded the 2021 U.S. Latino GDP Report just released by the nonprofit Latino Donor Collaborative.

Between 2015 and 2019 alone, more than 700,000 Latinos were added to our state’s population. And according to the 2020 Census, which also revealed an increasingly multiracial America, Latinos make up 26.2% of Florida’s population.

Read more: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/fabiola-santiago/article254641302.html

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DeSantis can't restrain his white-supremacist instincts, but maybe Florida voters will (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2021 OP
Florida latinas tend to be conservative and religious & totally oppose any liberalization. lark Oct 2021 #1

lark

(24,149 posts)
1. Florida latinas tend to be conservative and religious & totally oppose any liberalization.
Sat Oct 2, 2021, 08:26 AM
Oct 2021

This isn't a good thing at this time.

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