Why has Florida as the fourth most populated state been so backward and slow to become a state with better stats?
A lot of factors, but people seem to not realize Florida has no one great metropolitan area people in Tampa Bay dont care about Miami who dont care about Orlando. It is over 700 miles drive from Key West to Pensacola place that on a map to see how distance relates to Florida politics. We are a state with the highest retirement population and a huge Latin immigrant population in Southeast Florida. Im from Virginia it seems Florida didnt do much in the Civil War. Florida was so far from the major battlefields that it had its own Civil War. The coastline was too large to protect, but fast-moving Florida cavalry kept the Union from destroying all the needed salt fields and cattle centers. Your Virginians should note that Tallahassee was the only Southern capital east of the Mississippi that never fell to the Union. Also, Floridas units (too far from home to R&R) had some of the highest casualty rates in the Civil War.
