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The Many Floridas
North Miami Beach, FL May 10, 2002
A.H. Schectman
THINKING ALLOWED
Essays on Issues, Ideas and Reflections on the Times. Published now and
then. Opinions pro or con are welcome.
THE MANY FLORIDAS
I think that every piece of territory can be broken up into
portions north, south, east and west. The people in these territories
sometimes develop differently and become distant and unlike those elsewhere.
I think the existence of West Virginia, South Korea, Bangladesh and Israel
and Palestine are proofs of this statement. But, take a look at the long
peninsula of Florida.
There are many Floridas most of which are unknown to me, a
newcomer. But it has become obvious to me that there are some major
divisions in this warm, sunny and quite dry (for the moment) land down
south. The major divisions that I have discerned are a Northern strip, a
Central part and South Florida.
The Northern strip of Florida has a capitol in Tallahassee. It was
declared so when most of the population was centered there and the southern
portions were considered uninhabitable. It is remote from population
centers in the Florida of the Twenty-first Century. Tallahassee is the
political center and as such makes laws for the rest of Florida. This is
today untenable because representatives from the "other" Floridas go into a
different world when they meet "up there". The State is presently governed
by a member of privileged family from Texas and seems to be out of touch
with what goes on in "remote" and distant Florida.
The actual powerful part of Florida is the Center. Here is the
real capitol, Orlando. This is a financial center based in an unreal world
of Disney - entertainment, land development and a burgeoning population
fleeing reality in other parts of America.
South Florida is really part of Central and South America. In
fact, Miami is the Capitol of Cuba although other Hispanics will dispute
this.
There are many Floridas but it seems that "All Florida is divided into
three.
Carol's Evaluation: 10 out of 10
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