The longer you’ve lived in Florida, the more likely you were to vote Democratic.

@politics_watch1 on X ^ | 08 November 2026 | Politics Watch

[Merrick]

1-5 yrs: R+25

6-10 yrs: R+9

11-20 yrs: D+5

20+ yrs: D+5



(NBC Exit polls)

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KEYWORDS: ballotfraud; election; florida; rondesantis

[Merrick]

Still want to argue the push left in Florida is because of people leaving blue states and bringing their politics with them? Still want to argue DeSantis isn't whistling past the graveyard?

This is what I'm seeing in Virginia, too.

[T.B. Yoits]

The older retirees from New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut are Democrats with taxpayer funded pensions (teachers and other government employees).

Younger transplants to Florida are still working or aren't retired on taxpayer funding.

[Semper Vigilantis]

More likely seniors listening to AARP scare tactics about losing social security and other benefits because of to Republican policies - or worse: TRUMP.
I have AARP for the discounts, all their propaganda goes straight from the PO box to the circular file.

[NorthMountain]

Last time I got a solicitation from AARP, I wrote some obscenities on it and sent it back in their “business reply” envelope ...

Haven’t heard from them since ...

[adorno]

The thought used to be that, people leaving the democrat areas were leaving because of high taxes and high-prices and high-cost of living overall.

Turns out that, they were actually looking for the low-taxes and low-home prices, and MOSTLY the warm weather; the cold sucks the life out of people and being locked inside homes for 6-8 months a year, was/is inhumane.

So, the democrats left mostly for economic reasons, and IN FACT, did bring their politics with them. Texas is a casualty of that liberalism gone south. Florida came close to turning blue too, but, where will democrats go next when all the new areas they went to become just as expensive as the areas they left? The only positive left to them from all the reasons they moved, is the warm-weather, but that’s not going to pay the mortgage and/or the future income taxes which will be necessary to pay for the freebies they used to get in the north.

[Tell It Right]

The older retirees from New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut are Democrats with taxpayer funded pensions (teachers and other government employees).

Younger transplants to Florida are still working or aren't retired on taxpayer funding.

Agreed. And I wouldn't be surprised if it's loyalty to a brand for older voters. If you became a Dim voter back in the 1990s when they were more sane (abortion as long as it's "safe, legal, and rare", and welfare that's temporary and with work requirements, etc.) and if you've mostly checked out of politics since then and been relaxing in retirement avoiding drama, you might still vote Dim not knowing that the Dims today aren't like the Dims from decades ago.

[srmanuel]

As a someone who was born in Florida and lived here all nearly 67 years, if you think about this it’s not hard to understand

Florida was largely a Democratic state and never elected Republicans to statewide offices for decades, it wasn’t until Jeb Bush became Governor that things started to change and then DeSantis accelerated Florida becoming a Red State

Florida was was Southern Democratic State like most Southern states were throughout the 60s and early 70s, so many old timers that have lived in Florida forever are still solidly Democratic

[higgmeister]

But 1-10 year-olds are not even allowed to vote.

[x]

Very true. Also, the earlier wave of transplants from NY were mostly Democrats. They weren’t fleeing NY, like later transplants. They were recreating it. They might be counterbalanced by Cubans who came over at about the same time.

[ChessExpert]

Wasn’t Florida once a blue (Democrat) state?

[spintreebob]

I moved from IL to GA. The millions of northerners now in GA are clearly not typical of those in their northern states. Most obviously, they are of working age and work. They are not on welfare. They came to GA for the jobs.

The same is true of TN and TX. FL is different. Some come for the jobs. But many come to FL for retirement or semi-retirement.

In GA the new immigrants from the Blue North were mostly ready to admit that the Blue path was not working and were ready to switch sides. But almost all factions of GA MAGA and Republicans made the new comers feel unwelcome.

Of prominent Republicans in GA only Kelvin & Janelle King made newbies feel welcome. The factions in GA are so busy fighting internally that the new comer thinks: I don’t want to get involved in that fight.

From GA Republican Assembly to Phil Kent to the Brian Kemps, Collins, Jones and Jackson it was suspicion. If you aren’t already with me you must be the enemy.

[bigbob]

Newsmax just today acquired Radio Mambi in Miama (710AM) along with WQBA (1140 AM) - “a lifeline, gathering place, and trusted voice for Cuban exiles and their families throughout South Florida...”a platform for those who cherish freedom, democracy, faith, family, and the enduring hope of a free Cuba”.

Smart move. If we don’t reach out and educate them, who will?

[Does so]

When I moved (intrastate) to Miami in 1960, there were no Republicans on the ballot...

[Does so]

Then I found a Republican-registered neighbor who was as much a Bolshevik as you’d find...