Likely to raise hackles among Democrats and Republicans
alike, this dynamic history of modern Florida argues that the Sunshine
State has become the political and demographic future of the nation.
David Colburn reveals how Florida gradually abandoned the traditions of
race and personality that linked it to the Democratic Party. The book
focuses particularly on the population growth and chaotic gubernatorial
politics that altered the state from 1940, when it was a sleepy
impoverished southern outpost, to the present and the emergence of a
dominant Republican Party.