Still booming with retirees, The Villages gives Trump, GOP edge in Florida

[Sancho]

http://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/2017/10/05/still-booming-with-retirees-the-villages-gives-trump-gop-edge-in-florida/

For several consecutive years, The Villages has been the fastest-growing metropolitan area in the United States, drawing retirees to an area northwest of Orlando with endless recreation, relative affordability and an almost jarring level of cleanliness and order.

Yet over time, the explosive growth has fueled a remarkable, somewhat under-the-radar demographic trend that is playing an increasingly key role in the country’s most prized swing state.

Overwhelmingly white and Republican, The Villages and surrounding areas have offset the rise in Hispanic residents in Central Florida, part of the vaunted I-4 corridor where elections are decided. In a state with a history of bitterly close elections, small shifts matter greatly and this one played a key role in Donald Trump’s narrow victory.

[rzemanfl]

1. I wish them all the clap. If they don't already have it. n/t

[atreides1]

2. Wonder if they'll feel the same after this

219 Republican House Members Just Voted To Cut Medicaid, Medicare, And Public Education To Give Tax Breaks to Millionaires And Corporations.

https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/10/05/219-republican-house-members-just-voted-cut-medicaid-medicare-and-public


"Earlier today, the House of Representatives voted 219 to 206 in favor of the Republican House budget resolution that proposed $5.8 trillion in cuts over the next decade to Medicare, Medicaid, education, infrastructure and other critical services while paving the way for trillions of dollars in tax cuts that would mostly benefit the wealthy and corporations."
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[BigmanPigman]

4. They are as hypocritical as the GOP who they will continue to vote for.

Your can show them real facts but they will keep believing the BS that the GOP spews out to them. Americans are idiots!!!

[democratisphere]

8. redumbliCONs are too stupid to know when they have been had.

[pangaia]

3. Just Google Mapped it..

Yikes, what a plastic, synthetic, tinker toy thingy....
No style, no character, no feeling, no charm, no beauty, no nuttin'.

figures it would be republicans

[doc03]

5. A friend from Florida told me they adding another village to the Villages

with 19000 more houses.

[FloridaBlues]

6. We in fl have known about the villages for a long time.

I know people who don't want to live there because it's so republican but they do have a Democratic Party and club that's active all tho smaller in number.

[Ineeda]

7. Dave Barry's most recent book

"Best State Ever" has an entire chapter on The Villages. Funny, revealing and gross. I can't imagine wanting to live in such a cookie-cutter place.