From Yellow Dog Democrats to Red State Republicans: Florida and Its Politics since 1940

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251 Notes Introduction 1. CBS News, November 6, 2000. See also politicalhumor.about.com/library/ blratherisms.htm; and Sabato, ed., Overtime. 2. Gannon, Florida: A Short History, 6. 3. Mormino, Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams, 2. 4. U.S. Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census: Florida, General Characteristics, Fact Sheet, 2005. 5. Reed, Kohls, and Hanchette, “The Dissolution of Dixie and the Changing Shape of the South,” 221, 227. 6. Richard Patterson, quoted in Cobb, “We Ain’t White Trash No More,” 139. 7. Reed, Kohls, and Hanchette, 227. 8. Hiaasen quoted in Paterniti, “America in Extremis,” 28–35, 66, 74. 9. U.S. Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census: Florida, General Demographic Characteristics , 2005; St. Petersburg Times, August 21, 2006. 10. “The Changing Face of Florida,” Gainesville Sun, March 28, 2001. 11. Ibid. 12. U.S. Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census: Florida, General Characteristics, Fact Sheet, 2005. 13. Florida Statistical Abstract, 2002, 2003, 36th, 37th ed., Section 6.00, Labor Force, Employment and Earnings. 14. New York Times, July 6, 2012. 15. Carl Hiaasen, interview by Steve Croft on the television show 60 Minutes, April 17, 2005. 16. Kruse, White Flight; Lassiter, The Silent Majority, 4. There are many other excellent books on southern politics, the politics of race and class, and the emergence of the Republican Party to which this author is indebted. Briefly, and in no particular order, these include: D. T. Carter, The Politics of Rage; D. T. Carter, From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich; Edsall and Edsall, Chain Reaction; Phillips, The Emerging Republican Majority; Black and Black, Politics and Society in the South; Bartley and Graham, Southern Politics and the Second Reconstruction; Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis; Fraser and Gerstle, eds., The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930–1980; Novak and Zeliser, eds., The Democratic Experiment; Lublin, The Republican South; Rieder, Canarsie : The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn against Liberalism; Formisano, Boston against Busing; Frank, What’s the Matter with Kansas?; Hamburger and Wallsten, One Party Country. 252 · Notes to Pages 11–32 17. U.S. Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census: Florida, General Demographic Characteristics , 2005. Chapter 1. From Darkness to Sunshine 1. Rehnquist, The Centennial Crisis. 2. Tampa Morning Tribune, May 4, 1909; Ortiz, Emancipation Betrayed, xix. 3. Colburn and Scher, Florida’s Gubernatorial Politics, 59–60, 73, 78. 4. Key, Southern Politics in State and Nation, esp. 82–105, 298–311. 5. Colburn and deHaven-Smith, Government in the Sunshine State, 10, 15; see also Ortiz, Emancipation Betrayed. 6. Cash, The Mind of the South; McWhiney, Cracker Culture. 7. Walter Fuller, quoted in William W. Rogers, “Fortune and Misfortune,” 297. 8. Colburn and deHaven-Smith, Government in the Sunshine State, 28–29. 9. Winkler, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Making of Modern America, 69. 10. Ibid., 72. 11. Gannon, Florida: A Short History, 104–6; see also Mormino, Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams, 308–9. 12. Mormino, “World War II,” 325. 13. Arnold Harms, interview by David Colburn, November 22, 2005. Interview is part of the Veterans Oral History Project, Library of Congress. See also Gannon, Operation Drumbeat. 14. Mormino, Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams, 308. 15. Colburn and deHaven-Smith, Florida’s Megatrends, 44. 16. Mormino, Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams, 129. 17. Ibid., 132. 18. Colburn and deHaven-Smith, Florida’s Megatrends, 55. 19. U.S. Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census: Florida, General Demographic Characteristics , 2000. 20. Mormino, Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams, 141–42. 21. St. Petersburg Times, January 9, 1953. 22. MacManus, “Aging in Florida and Its Implications.” 23. McCollough, Truman, 639. 24. Ibid., 667. 25. St. Petersburg Times, October 31, November 2, 3, 4, 1948. 26. Slate magazine, July 1, 2003. 27. St. Petersburg Times, November 3, 4, 1948. 28. Lassiter, The Silent Majority, 11; see also Cobb, The Selling of the South; and Colburn and deHaven-Smith, Florida’s Megatrends, 40, 41. 29. Colburn and deHaven-Smith, Florida’s Megatrends, 41. 30. Jones, “No Longer Denied,” 255. 31. Lawson, Colburn, and Paulson, “Groveland,” 300–301. 32. Colburn and deHaven-Smith, Government in the Sunshine State, 37, 38. 33. Lawson, Colburn, and Paulson, “Groveland,” 315; see also Mormino, “A History of Florida’s White Primary.” Notes to Pages 32–48 · 253 34. Lawson, Colburn, and Paulson, “Groveland,” 319–20. In 2005, Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist launched an...