25, 2020 - the day DeSantis announced Florida would immediately enter its final phase of re-opening - the state has gained 161,500 new GOP Floridians and 77,300 Democrats. The partisan disparity in Florida is even more pronounced beginning later in the pandemic. The new residents of neighboring Georgia tend to match the state’s growing friendliness to Democrats: 50,700 are transplant Democrats, 38,200 are transplant Republicans and 25,300 are transplant independents. Texas, which may be most analogous to Florida in this scenario, has 86,500 Republican, 68,600 Democratic and 18,400 independent transplants, a split nowhere close to rivaling Florida’s. Florida emerging as a new mecca for conservatives is a concept that has been speculated - or even assumed - by political pundits. Voters “voting with their feet” is a tried-and-true concept in political science and theory. From July 2020 to June 2022, Florida’s net migration - the number of people moving to the state minus the number of residents leaving it - was 777,600, according to estimates from the Legislature’s Office of Economic and Demographic Research. Ron DeSantis, became seen as a bastion by many fleeing what critics call draconian lockdowns and masking orders, as well as liberal policies on crime and spending.
In total, about 3% of Florida’s active voters are voters who moved to the state after the start of the pandemic.Īs the nation navigated the pandemic, the “Free State of Florida,” led by Gov. As percentages, 46% are Republicans, 23% are Democrats and 29% are independents. The data reveals 393,800 Florida voters who chose the pandemic-era Sunshine State as their new home state and registered to vote here.
Since that day in mid-March - the day President Donald Trump announced the “ 15 Days to Slow the Spread” of the COVID-19 pandemic - 193,300 Republicans and 96,900 Democrats have moved to Florida, according to L2 data. They are twice as likely to be Republicans as they are to be Democrats. Since March 16, 2020, an estimated 394,000 active voters have flocked to Florida.
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