Florida is the destination of modern America. Since the 1960s the state’s population has increased immensely, its GDP has risen to the top of the national rankings, its politics have come to define American elections, and its demographics have come to foreshadow those of the rest of the country. Florida has entered a state of decline wherein the White American majority which has long defined the state is on the verge of minority status, and with it, the identity of Florida is at risk of being subsumed by the cultures imported by foreign peoples.

Florida was the first site of permanent settlement by the European peoples on the North American continent, and it is likely that Juan Ponce de Leon, the Spaniard who first set foot in Florida, was the first European to arrive in what is today the contiguous United States. Leon was only beaten to the North American continent by the Vikings, who arrived some five centuries earlier.

Current Situation:

Today Florida looks radically different from its past. Even before the Great Replacement began the advent of modern technologies such as air conditioning, invented in 1902 by Alfred Wolff for the NYC Stock Exchange and then deployed in homes in the 1960s, had begun a massive migratory wave of Americans to Florida.

When the Civil War ended Florida boasted a population of just 140,000 people. The state was largely considered a hot, humid, and uninhabitable backwater except by the most robust Americans. Florida did not even surpass one million inhabitants until the 1920s, more than 60 years after the end of the Civil War. By 1950, however, things began to change with the aforementioned deployment of commercial and residential air conditioning.

From 1940 to 1960 the population of Florida swelled from 1.897 million to 4.951 million, an increase of nearly 3.1 million people in the span of just 20 years. Even more noteworthy however is that the White population of Florida increased sharply. In 1940 72% of the population of Florida was White, a share which already represented a dramatic increase from the 55.3% share of the state’s population Whites held in 1900. Regardless, by the 1960s the White share of Florida’s population had ballooned to 82.1% and the inflow of Whites was driving the state’s incredible population boom.

The White population share peaked in the 1960s, though. The passage of the 1965 Immigration Act and the subsequent refusal to not admit illegals and other classes of immigrants began radically reshaping the state’s demography.

The 82.1% share Whites enjoyed in the 1960s census had been reduced to just 65.4% by 2000. As of the 2020 census Whites in Florida hold a bare-knuckle majority consisting of just 51.5% of the population even as the state’s total population has skyrocketed to more than 21 million. By the 2031 census, Whites will likely hold a similar share of that they do in California (35%) or Texas (39.7%).

The number of immigrants in Florida has also increased dramatically, with some 4.8 million immigrants (nearly 90% of whom are minorities) comprising 22% of the state’s population as of 2022, according to the Migration Policy Institute (MPI).

Florida is suffering from this increased diversity, too. 48% of prison inmates are Blacks, despite Blacks comprising only 14% of the state population, another 31% of inmates are Hispanic, and 3% are classified as “other”, leaving Whites as just 21% of the prison population, well below their current population share.

Florida is also experiencing a serious housing crisis and a housing affordability crisis. Rapid, overwhelmingly minority origin, population growth has driven the cost of housing up wildly with homes in South Florida going for 35% more than they are worth. Between 2020 and 2022 rents in the state increased by 41% and the median rent in Florida is now $1,693 while the median price for a home in the state now exceeds $400,000, according to the University of Florida.

The state has also lagged behind in wage growth, between 2000 and 2012, as the minority population ballooned by more than 5 million people, the state experienced wages which were consistently 15-20 points below the national average. Similarly, as immigration picks up once again post-COVID, Florida is experiencing a real wage decline with a 4% real wage decline having been reported in late 2022.

Policy Options:

The question must now be asked, as always, whether or not Florida could begin taking steps to do something to reverse the Great Replacement in the state if those politically willing to do such things were to get into office.

As usual with our series on American states, the answer is yes.

Florida has already passed legislation to ban most citizens of China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, and Venezuela from buying real estate close to a military compound or critical infrastructure. And while a federal court ruling has allowed some purchases by Chinese nationals to go forward, this should not stop Florida from expanding its laws.

The state could ban all foreigners from a wide range of countries from buying, renting, leasing, etc, land across the entire state by widening the definition of critical infrastructure and by putting legislation in place that prioritizes Americans’ access to property before that of foreigners.

This process could force out the 2.3 million recent immigrants and their descendants in Florida who have yet to become naturalized citizens, as well as the nearly 1 million illegal immigrants who reside in the state. These illegals would also have to take their 230,000 children under the age of 18 with them, bringing the total number of repatriations through this policy option to over 2.5 million.

A final policy option would be for the state to investigate cases of suspected immigration and naturalization fraud, both of which are widespread.

Some 70% of immigrants in the United States are admitted on the basis of family ties, not for work or school.

This means that a large portion of people who have acquired US citizenship are likely to have done so fraudulently. The proof for this is best demonstrated by a 2008 investigation wherein the U.S. State Department discovered, through DNA testing, that over 80% of individuals admitted into the U.S. as family members of a “refugee” were not related to that individual.

The U.S. government has since mandated DNA testing for refugees who request their family members come to the U.S.

However, this DNA testing mandate has not been put in place for any other category of family reunification.

Simply by requiring proof that immigrants are related through marriage and birth certificates, and DNA testing, it is likely that a substantial portion of naturalized citizens in Florida, and in the U.S. as a whole, could have their citizenship revoked on the grounds of fraud.

Presuming that the fraud rate is only half of what it was in the famous refugee case, a rate of 40%, would denaturalize a further 300,000 immigrants in Florida. This large collapse in the adult immigrant population would also mean that the remaining 1.5 million children of immigrants in the state would depart with their families.

In total this small set of policy options could reduce the minority population of Florida by 4.3 million and increase the White American population share from 51.5% to 63%, a 13-point increase.

Conclusion:

Americans in Florida have a wide set of policy options at their disposal to both arrest demographic change and reverse the process through repatriation and safeguarding natives through adept changes to executive and legislative policy.

Many of these policies could be put in place at the order of a skilled governor and would not require legislative approval, though legislative changes are certainly needed.

The more Americans understand that there are very real policy options that could preserve their historic majority in the United States, the closer they come to making these policy changes a reality.