Thom: not long ago you pointed out a major part of what happened to help DeSantis win the election.
It was mainly due to the fact that the Cuban and Venezuelan community's were frightened into thinking that the Democrats were Socialist and Communists. There are many reasons for this, which began back in the 60's. I lived in Miami and …
Thom: not long ago you pointed out a major part of what happened to help DeSantis win the election.
It was mainly due to the fact that the Cuban and Venezuelan community's were frightened into thinking that the Democrats were Socialist and Communists. There are many reasons for this, which began back in the 60's. I lived in Miami and watched as the Cuban's began to arrive in the U. S. I HAD many Cuban friends and tried talking to them about DeSantis. No go. I cannot, for the life of me, understand how nor why they cannot see what DeSantis' polices are doing to our State and the nation. For God's sake he is doing pretty much the same thing that made them leave Cuba. Same for the Venezuelan's. There is much more to this story and it's history. However; the above is enough for now.
Yes! I didn't fit the Venezuelans into the picture, but I have known Cubans still bitter about Castro and totally paranoid equating the slightest hint mentioning "socialism" as confiscatory tyrannical "Communism." What's weird, is, the Cubans also have Very Special immigrant status. Yet hate and fear other refugees.(?) Go figure. (Through my particular lens of interest in the psychology of class striation, I suspect a significant segment of the Castro Cuban expats are scions of the privileged plantation owner class who were dispossessed. A Very Special constituency yesterday and today.)
As Thom would say; "spot on." I worked for the airline that were flying people from Cuba into the U S. These fights were known as, "Freedom Flights." In my opinion, this is why DeSantis centered his whole campaign on the word "Freedom. The connection with the Cubans plight is quite evident. There is much to say as to class striation. Simply put; there was much of that, especial the Cubans contempt for the black community and the Mexican farmworkers. It was also quite evident within their own community, especially those Cubans who were black As to the Anglo Community, they began to flee Miami in droves northward toward Broward County. I can remember billboards on I-95 saying, "Will the last American to leave Dade County please turn off the lights." Two very significant events has had a lasting effect on the Cuban community. The Bay of Pigs fiasco and Fidel Castro emptying his jails and mental institution and the poorest of the poor. They came to U.S. shore in what was known as, "The Mariel Boatlift. I apologize for droning on, but you have opened a tunnel into the past that carries many fond memories. There is so much more to add; but I have gone on long enough.
I have half-Venezuelan cousins in FL (my dad’s younger brother married a Venezuelan woman when he worked on dam projects in that country). One of them (in Tampa Bay region) is pretty clearly red conservative. Others (in Orlando) are less so.
Thom: not long ago you pointed out a major part of what happened to help DeSantis win the election.
It was mainly due to the fact that the Cuban and Venezuelan community's were frightened into thinking that the Democrats were Socialist and Communists. There are many reasons for this, which began back in the 60's. I lived in Miami and watched as the Cuban's began to arrive in the U. S. I HAD many Cuban friends and tried talking to them about DeSantis. No go. I cannot, for the life of me, understand how nor why they cannot see what DeSantis' polices are doing to our State and the nation. For God's sake he is doing pretty much the same thing that made them leave Cuba. Same for the Venezuelan's. There is much more to this story and it's history. However; the above is enough for now.
Yes! I didn't fit the Venezuelans into the picture, but I have known Cubans still bitter about Castro and totally paranoid equating the slightest hint mentioning "socialism" as confiscatory tyrannical "Communism." What's weird, is, the Cubans also have Very Special immigrant status. Yet hate and fear other refugees.(?) Go figure. (Through my particular lens of interest in the psychology of class striation, I suspect a significant segment of the Castro Cuban expats are scions of the privileged plantation owner class who were dispossessed. A Very Special constituency yesterday and today.)
As Thom would say; "spot on." I worked for the airline that were flying people from Cuba into the U S. These fights were known as, "Freedom Flights." In my opinion, this is why DeSantis centered his whole campaign on the word "Freedom. The connection with the Cubans plight is quite evident. There is much to say as to class striation. Simply put; there was much of that, especial the Cubans contempt for the black community and the Mexican farmworkers. It was also quite evident within their own community, especially those Cubans who were black As to the Anglo Community, they began to flee Miami in droves northward toward Broward County. I can remember billboards on I-95 saying, "Will the last American to leave Dade County please turn off the lights." Two very significant events has had a lasting effect on the Cuban community. The Bay of Pigs fiasco and Fidel Castro emptying his jails and mental institution and the poorest of the poor. They came to U.S. shore in what was known as, "The Mariel Boatlift. I apologize for droning on, but you have opened a tunnel into the past that carries many fond memories. There is so much more to add; but I have gone on long enough.
I have half-Venezuelan cousins in FL (my dad’s younger brother married a Venezuelan woman when he worked on dam projects in that country). One of them (in Tampa Bay region) is pretty clearly red conservative. Others (in Orlando) are less so.
Thank you