Why make DST the standard? EST and other standard time zones are set in relation to Greenich Mean Time. Keep standard time an dump DST not the reverse.
In northern latitudes, school kids will be going to school in the dark, waiting for buses if DST through the winter. A little less pronounced in FL. Kids waiting in the dark AMS was very unpopular when Nixon first invoked it in 1973 ( height of Watergate) during the first energy crisis , the thought was it would save energy.