didn’t know that. How did boatloads of prisoners and psych patients become a solid republican base?
I just assumed he got rid of a lot of who didn’t want to live there, but that would have been everyone lol.
dont know the history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariel_boatlift
“The exodus started to have negative political implications for U.S. president Jimmy Carter when it was discovered that a number of the exiles had been released from Cuban jails and mental health facilities.”