You have to keep in mind that Florida has had a lot of immigration in the last few years--and not just from Latin America (those folks are actually doing a lot better now than when they were in their home countries). Florida's population has mostly swelled from folks who moved here from more Northern US states, and the Deep South--seeking the low-level unskilled jobs and warm weather the Sunshine State so abundantly provides.

This explains the state's predominantly Red electorate. Florida's native, traditional population has always been rural Dixie, poor and oppressed, especially in the Panhandle. But a lot of the new voters now moving into Florida just couldn't make it in their home states, and they had to come here to fail, all over again.

You see, folks who can't compete in the modern world find it difficult to accept that perhaps it might be due to economic and historical forces over which they have no control, or that the social and economic class they aspire to join might actually be the ones responsible for causing their own depressed condition. And of course, no one likes to dwell on their own inadequacies and shortcomings, whether personal or cultural. They prefer to blame all their problems on foreign enemies, evil conspiracies and sinister elites who are stabbing them in the back and betraying their country, or culture...or race.

And these attitudes are quickly recognized and exploited by demagogues---but, I don't have to explain that to you again, do I? Godwin was wrong. This is a resurgence of good old-fashioned fascism, just like in Europe a century ago. For the same reason, and by the same people.