funny, you dont look like you're from FL...(DU Floridians check in here)

[GBD4]

goal: make sure Jeb doesn't mess with our votes next time around :)

on edit: from Broward, btw

[brainwashed_youth]

1. checking in

from a muggy Tampa Bay and wishing all you Florida DU'ers a very happy MLK Day

[patdem]

2. Ah, but that tan and leathery skin could be a give away?

[Birthmark]

3. Yo!

Volusia County - home of...I don't remember, but I think it was something to do with racecars.

[GBD4]

4. Jeb v Gore/Clinton

Why do you think that Volusia is a pretty solid county for Clinton and Gore in the last three presidential runs but voters there love Jeb in the gubernatorial races? And aren't Mica & Feeney the main reps from the area? I want to see Volusia colored blue more often :)

[Democrats unite]

5. Checking in from Fort Myers...

I am sad to say a Republican stronghold.

[ringmastery]

7. there's explosive population growth

in the Naples/Ft. Myers area. Hopefully, over time, things will start getting better for democrats as the economy becomes more diversified and more families, fewer rich midwest retirees move in.

[nickgutierrez]

27. True

Naples definitely has too many of the mindless flag-waving variety. Either that, or rich midwesterners that benefit greatly from the Bush tax "plan". If I ever get a chance, I'm going around Immokalee, where I grew up and went to school, and plastering the entire town with signs for whoever gets the nomination -- that town definitely hasn't benefitted from the Bush tax "plan".

[Scurrilous]

6. Checking in from....

..Miami Lakes. Happy to say a Bob Graham stronghold.

[GBD4]

8. yay!

Go Bob! :)

(and what a nice town he and his family have built!)

[Scurrilous]

10. It is nice...

...isn't it. :)

[Dudley_DUright]

9. Is anyone in FL actually from FL?

I thought we were all refugees from the "great white north" (WI and MN myself, but now living in Volusia County).

[Captain Absolut]

11. Some of us are

I'm a 4th generation Floridian.

...but now I live in Boston after going to college here.

[GBD4]

14. nope

born in Los Angeles, parents and grandparents are from New Yawk :)

[RebelOne]

18. Yep. I have a daughter born in So. Florida and she still lives there.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

24. native floridian here ...born, raised in dade cnty. higher education in NY

[Eumenides]

28. Native Floridian

4th generation native of Tampa. But I desperately wish I was from someplace else.

[fishnfla]

12. Near Daytona

me!

[KayLaw]

13. Native here

Third generation and I live in the Tampa Bay area.

[nickgutierrez]

15. Don't remind me about absentee ballots...

I'm going to have to file one in November...

From Naples, FL, originally.

[JCMach1]

16. Lifelong Floridian now EXPATRIOT

living in the UAE.

And damn is it better!

[RebelOne]

17. Ex-Floridian here.

Now live in GA. Wouldn't go back to Florida for all the tea in China.

[KG]

19. a shout out from St. Pete.

:hi:

the nicest city in FL. :)

i'm from the D.C. area but plan on living out my days here.

[Katarina]

20. Flagler County here...

Born and raised in Volusia County. Lived here all my life except for a year in Texas (ugh) and 4 years in NC. Hi everyone!

[Samurai_Writer]

21. Fort Pierce here

Although I've only lived here two years -- does that count? I lived in Houston, TX 26 years before that, and grew up in St. Louis, MO, born in Tulsa, OK.

I love Florida though. You couldn't pay me enough to move back to smoggy, crime-ridden Houston.

[gator_in_Ontario]

22. hey Fort Pierce!

Born and raised there! and I thought I was the only voice of reason. Been visiting Canada about a month...PM me if you want

[camero]

23. Live in FL

In the Tampa Bay area but originally from Maryland. Been here 8 years.

[lpbk2713]

25. Been living in Lakeland for 45 years.

I guess you'd call me a transplant. And yes, Jeb (that damn Texan) needs to go. He's doing the same smoke and mirrors routine with our schools that his chimpy brother pulled in Texas.

[ewagner]

26. Raised just north of Orlando

Educated in Florida. (FSU and UCF)

been gone ever since Disney ruined the place.....