Abstract

I’m sometimes asked if Florida is in the South. Well, it’s a big state, I’ll usually say, and regional boundaries are never well defined. This summer, though, the headlines suggested some new reasons to answer the question in the affirmative. “With Voting Rights Act Gutted, Florida Set to Resume Voter Purge.” “Jury Acquits Zimmerman of All Charges.” I grew up in Brevard County, adjacent to the county where George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin. Brevard is most famous for vacation beaches and the space program, but its courthouse is named after Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore, NAACP leaders murdered there in 1951 by Klansmen who were never brought to trial. In 2012 six white supremacists currently or formerly residing in Brevard were arrested on charges that included manufacturing ricin in preparation for an “inevitable race war.”

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