But, every time I visit Florida, I can't believe how crazy dangerous it seems. It must be that the whites in Florida do not understand, or are in denial, about how many, and how many dangerous, people there are who live right around the corner, so to speak.
Maybe some FL FReepers could enlighten me.
It’s as simple as the difference between a ‘Yankee’ and a ‘Damn Yankee’....................
Even back in the early 1990s, it was dangerous. My parents lived in the Cocoa Beach area, then moved one town north, always walking distance to the beach. People would get assaulted and robbed walking to the beach alone even back then. There was already a very heavy concentration of non-productive, drug/alcohol addicted and third-worlders living homeless or nearly so. Driving is insane. Then, it got even worse with extensive building of high-rise condos on the beachfront. Add to that how easy it was to get ripped off in any transaction and how much the medical care was geared toward maxing what Medicare would pay.
I'd love to live somewhere with a nice safe beach, both for weather and physical safety, where at some point a car isn't necessary. I don't know if that exists in FL anymore.
Not so long ago most of Florida was a typical law & order southern state.
But it has gradually become infested with transplanted liberals who are determined to recreate the liberal cess pits they just escaped from "back home".
Now most of Florida has become a place where you can clearly view the benefits of diversity in action.....
In the 80’s, the Great White Flight took place in Pensacola. They moved out of the “city.” They moved across the Escambia Bay to Gulf Breeze, to the south, east, to the Pace/Milton area, or west, to Perdido Key. These areas, today, are still predominately white areas with excellent schools and few crimes.
Their vacated homes are now inhabited by minorities and the neighborhoods are rundown and high crime areas.
I know. We took a ride down our old street awhile back and turned around after two blocks because it looked so bad! (The elementary school where I taught had 6 black students, in 1977 when I left. Today it is predominately black.)
Mobile, Alabama is much larger than Pensacola, and the white flight is very visible in their Eastern Shore population. I expect this has happened all over the US.
For the most part in my state, there's at least a "buffer zone" between the areas.
I agree. In certain areas, you just feel it. It's a vibe. I feel it immediately in most places in Florida. There are places that feel safer than others but like you said, one exit down it can easily switch into a whole other world.
I always say Florida has two kinds of people. The people who made their money (and lots of it) somewhere else and brought it there and the people who wait on and service them. Typically people who ran away from themselves and their problems elsewhere only to find them again just with more sunshine and better weather.