Sarasota is not that Red anymore.
I was born there .
its was a midwest retirement place.
But the Citrus and tomatoe farmers dragged in tons of Mexicans in the 80s and NYC lefties discovered the place in the 90s along with the NY Boca Raton crowd .
They have destroyed the place.
The city is blue while the south county red .
It’s so typical of what happens when leftist northerners move south to take advantage of the nice weather and lower cost of living. They end up infecting the places to where they move, pushing their progressive will and agendas on local municipalities, diluting the conservatism of the area. I live in very conservative upstate SC, and I can only imagine how changed this area will be one day, saturated with progressivism, once the northern lefties find out what a great place it is to live here.