You know, demographically, Florida is a strange state. Coastal cities, often filled with "snowbirds" (retirees) from Montreal and NYC, tend to be be quite liberal and cosmopolitan. Often, you won't even hear southern accents. But then there's the interior and the panhandle, which feel like the old South, right down to drawls and barely disguised racism. Then figure in Miami, where the Cuban American vote does not automatically go to Democrats like a lot of people naively assume. "Hispanic" voters are nothing like a monolith, and Cuban Americans don't vote like Mexican Americans or like Puerto Ricans.

Then there's good old gerrymandering and voter suppression, which disproportionately amplify Republican power.

All that to say, there's hope. Because I think a minority are struggling against the tides of history. I think younger generations are eliciting something like a last gasp of resistance from people whose values are falling out of popularity fast.

But that doesn't mean we get complacent, of course. I thought that in 1990 too.