Posted on 01/29/2015 3:30:14 AM PST by kelly4c
I was just over looking at the DailyMail website and noticed that so many of the stories are out of Florida. A disproportionate amount it seems. Any Floridians here? Just what's going on in your state, do you feel anything's off-kilter?
It’s not just you. News from Florida is so wacky and has been for such a long time that at Fark.com, Florida even has it’s own separate category. It’s weird here.
The Cubans in Miami are good additions to the country as are the Vietnamese. Both groups work hard and avoid entanglement with government to a greater extent than any other minority group. They pay a lot more in taxes than they suck up in “benefits.’ I have always thought that the country should have taken all the refugees we could get from both places, with a certain amount of weeding out, of course. Mariel showed the necessity of that.
Oh, well its hard to tell sometimes. All those northern states ship their misfits down here and then talk about how many whacko’s are here.
It’s horrible! Sometimes it dips below 70 degrees!
Various members of the fictional Crowe family appear as characters in several of Elmore Leonard’s novels and short stories. They are Florida natives, although they also appear in Kentucky, and most of them are ‘batshit crazy’.
The Crowe family were the primary players in the main story arc of the 2014 season of the TV show “Justified” (which was based on an Elmore Leonard short story called “Fire in the Hole”).
When I read your post a vivid image of the Crowes popped in to my head. I failed to take note that not everyone would be a fan of Elmore Leonard or “Justified”.
The Haitians seem to be a mixed bunch. Those with a little education, and there are some, tend to get as far away from the native Negroes as they can and do well and do well for the country. Many, though, with no education and the expected pathologies, medical and social, form their own ghettos and take their cues from the natives about their “right” to live off the government.
Follow this gut on Twitter. All the crazy in one place. https://twitter.com/_floridaman/status/560459685938339841
As a former New Yorker, now in Florida for almost 35 years, raising a passel of new “native Floridians”, I offer these observations. Florida is probably a microcosm of the U.S. with regard to demographics. It was once upon a time, fairly rural, agrarian, and homogenous, with areas of poverty scattered with areas of extreme wealth and urban life. Since air conditioning was made widely available, and then as the rust belt economies deteriorated thanks to liberal policies at all levels of government, people fled the cold and high taxes to the warmth and low taxes (still no State income tax to this day). With the influx of many different cultures (both from within and without) parts of Florida (Miami, Tampa, Orlando and the surrounding environs, including multi-county areas) have become a multi-cultural crossroads obtaining many of the benefits, and sustaining many of the detriments of such demographic shifts. The rest of the State (mostly north of the I-4 corridor and west through the panhandle - also known as LA, or lower Alabama) has maintained its more “Southern”, traditional, conservative feel, with a slight exception of the Tallahassee area, mostly due to its position as a State Capital and University town. Florida, however, is challenged with an increase in population (now 3rd most populous passing Pennsylvania and close to New York), including increase in immigrants (legal and illegal - in Miami Dade and Orlando multiple languages are spoke) increase in senior citizens and increase in people still escaping high taxes and liberal policies from elsewhere. The southern part of the State is primarily those from “up north” who wanted to leave there but want to re-create the same situAtion and expect the same services, but want everyone else to pay for it, and the northern part is still trying to hold the line on the invasion. Basically, in Florida, you have to move north to go south, as I did moving from south FL to north central FL 10 yrs ago to escape liberalism run amok.
Bingo...my wife is originally from Colombia, part of the family lives in Miami(Brickell area) and they complain about the Haitians. But here in Ft Lauderdale other members of the family complain about the Haitians too.
For the record there is a HUGE difference between Jamaicans/other Caribes and the Haitians.
Haitian gangs scare the cops...
“The Cubans in Miami are good additions to the country as are the Vietnamese. Both groups work hard and avoid entanglement with government to a greater extent than any other minority group. They pay a lot more in taxes than they suck up in “benefits.’ I have always thought that the country should have taken all the refugees we could get from both places, with a certain amount of weeding out, of course. Mariel showed the necessity of that.”
Excellent post!
I always hated summer in Florida but then 11 years ago I started spending my vacations in Viet Nam. There it is July/August like in Pensacola from March through October then it is April the rest of the time. I am more often there in the summer than in the “winter.” The people there freeze when the temperature goes below 80 in January and February.
St. Pete Pravda, err Tampa Bay Times, continuing it’s unending attacks on Gov. Scott. Situation, normal!
I was last in England around 1990. Locals would get all excited when I told them I was from Florida. At that time, Florida was the place Brits wanted to go most on vacation. I would assume there is still that kind of interest in our state over there. At least with the native Brits.
As others have noted, I believe it’s the influx of those from the ‘Great White North’. Being a native of Maryland, I have my ‘Southern’ credentials, while being a (L) gives me anti-carpetbagger cover (though, I suspect, some here would still not call it ‘good enough’).
I, myself, rarely go South below I-4. I try to stay out of the (illegal) and blue/gray-hair strongholds to keep my own sanity (and safety).
Still, I can’t beat it for the weather, the taxes and, if in the upper 1/2 or non-college towns, like-minded peeps
In Plant City we have good race relations also.
Yeah, Florida's awful this time of year. Please stay wherever you are. Thanks.
As long as you stay north of 60 you are in pretty good shape.
Accurate summation of why, after more than 50 years, I left the multicultural, third world, RAT-infested cesspit of SoFla and moved to rural coastal panhandle.
LOL!
I live in Flori-Duh, and I doan’ ever wan’ to be a Flori-Duh man!
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