Florida is America’s Future: Old, Southern and Retired

Photo by Brett Meliti on Unsplash. Article by Allison Schrager – Bloomberg Opinion. The Washington Post – August 21, 2021.

One of the most important trends to emerge from the 2020 Census didn’t get much attention last week, but it reveals more about how both the U.S. economy and its politics will look in the coming years than most other details focused on by the news media. […]

Retirees tend to be a big political force when they live together in tight communities. They have time to socialize together, become more politically active and tend to advocate to preserve entitlements. Retirees tend to be more conservative, but are also happy to collect government benefits. […]

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