I think nationwide, a lot of people are fed up with both parties and are switching to Independent or no party affiliation, just based on the numbers you posted, in 3 years the Democrats lost nearly 900,000 registered voters in Florida, the Republicans lost about 150,000 from their peak, the spread between the 2 is over 600,000 voters, despite the explosion in the people moving here.
Despite the fears of many, Florida appears to be getting more conservative despite the explosion in population.
I have no numbers to prove this but IMO, Red States are getting more Red and Blue States are getting Bluer as the country splits apart by political views.
I have no numbers to prove this but IMO, Red States are getting more Red and Blue States are getting Bluer as the country splits apart by political views.
First I read my own data incorrectly. The number of Republicans dropped from 2022 by the 150,000 as you note.
But your reading of people moving to the unenrolled has not been the case in the past. Generally speaking, young people tend to register for the first time as unenrolled (unless they are already politically active) and later join a party. I don’t think that has really changed.
That said, the main point of my post was that the total registrations has gone down even as the population of Flordia increases.