Good post. As a 7th generation NW Floridian, I concur with your comments. I would like to add that I’ve never voted for a Democrat and never will. It is not because I love the GOP so much....oh no! It is because I am a Conservative and want less of everything governmental.
The NYT is a race baiting rag and needs to be shunned as I shun the establishment Republican Party.
I started voting in the 1972 presidential election and have never voted for a democrat for President or Governor of GA. Can’t imagine that I ever will.