Southeast Florida the political future of tomorrow.
When one thinks of a particular state the identity of the people within that state comes to mind. A good example is the state of New York with its New-Yorkers or the state of Texas with their sense of pride. Unfortunately this is not the case for the state of Florida who has yet to find an identity that will describe the nature of its people. We cannot say that we are southerners because the term has a connotation of Civil War resentment. Most of the Floridians in the south do not even know the meaning of such a word. As confusing as the identity of the state is, the identity of a political party shares such confusions. There is no one particular identity or trait that can describe neither Floridians nor its political agenda. We are a state of retirement, a vacation destination and a clueless participant of politics. As Dr. Corrigan stated in one of the lectures "Florida it is the sample of the rest of the country in years to come, the diversity that forms the south east part of the state will form part of the country (Corrigan, 2002). In other words Florida is experiencing what we will see at a national level since the diversity of Floridians in the southern part of the state will expand throughout the country. The 1992 book by Grenier and Stepick entitled Miami Now! reinforces Dr. Corrigan's statement by adding that Miami now gives us a glimpse of America Tomorrow (Grenier and Stepick, 15).
The state of Florida has no political identity due to the history that has built the foundation of the state and which developed the state's former distinctiveness. The state was populated by the migration of people from southern neighboring states in the mid-nineteenth-century after the end of the Civil War. The concept became to be known as the Deep South tradition which was the segregation of races as a form of discrimination. Old Southern traditions unite the northern part of the state of Florida while it is the same cause that separates the north from the south.
