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    8 months ago

    “The notion of the ‘Big Sort’ … is really proving itself,” said Matt Isbell, a Democratic elections analyst.

    (bold added for emphasis)

    Maybe he’s in on the joke (?)

    Edit #1:

    I was being sarcastic, and thought the context was obvious.

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    effectively re-disenfeanchising almost 775k of them for being too poor to pay for their own incarceration and enslavement.

    That’s more than two and a half times as many as the total population increase of Florida last year

    Yes, last year. But the article cites a multi-year trend:

    Since April 2020, nearly 819,000 people have moved to Florida from within the U.S.

    The reasons for Florida’s Democratic-to-Republican swing don’t necessarily have to be either one or the other; they can be both, which in this case they are.