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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFlorid'uh
There is something wrong with that state. Other states too, but that doesn't minimize the damage that state has done for over a decade of my adult life, starting in 2000.
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Florid'uh (Original Post)
boston bean
Jul 2013
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darkangel218
(13,985 posts)1. Not my fault we're so messed up.
boston bean
(36,221 posts)2. Of course it's not everyone, but something's happening there.
BainsBane
(53,032 posts)3. That's a fact
and I lived there for 7 years.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)4. Republican Rule
Specifically, Bush rule. Screwed up Texas AND Florida, and the whole country.
npk
(3,660 posts)5. Much of Florida is still very much set in old southern bigotry
Obviously there are the more populous cities like Miami that are more progressive and less racist, but there is still a lot of work left, like much if the country I might add.
Jawja
(3,233 posts)6. Global warming will eventually take care of florid'duh....
Rising sea levels will swallow this banana republic whole.