{"id":1142596,"date":"2021-12-22T15:19:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T20:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1142596"},"modified":"2021-12-22T15:19:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T20:19:19","slug":"americans-explain-why-theyre-flocking-to-florida-ron-desantis-is-a-law-and-order-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americans-explain-why-theyre-flocking-to-florida-ron-desantis-is-a-law-and-order-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans Explain Why They&#039;re Flocking to Florida: Ron DeSantis &#039;Is a Law-and-Order Governor&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famericans-explain-why-theyre-flocking-to-florida-ron-desantis-is-a-law-and-order-governor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1142596&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1333404425-1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">New Florida residents are explaining why they flocked to the Sunshine State, praising the policies enacted by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).<\/p>\n<p>Paula Miller, who lived 12 miles from downtown Chicago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/chicago-new-york-residents-move-florida\">told<\/a> Fox News Digital that she always told herself she would never move to Florida, but that changed dramatically, and it \u201creally didn\u2019t have so much to do with the weather.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe taxes I was paying in Cook County \u2026 were getting really insane. My property tax went up $1,000 in one year. And I realized that that trend was going to continue,\u201d she said, noting some of the policies that drove her out of her town of Evanston, Illinois. That included the fact that most of the city council voted last year to defund the police, and earlier this year, the city council \u201cvoted in favor of paying reparations to Black residents in March 2021, becoming the first U.S. town to do so,\u201d according to Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just saw that as a trend that I couldn\u2019t get behind. And as the election approached \u2026 no one was sure of the outcome, but \u2026 if Trump won again, I was really afraid of riots breaking out, and I did not feel safe,\u201d she said, adding that she feels \u201ctruly safe\u201d in Florida and praising DeSantis as a governor of \u201claw-and-order.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Similarly,&nbsp;&nbsp;Lauren Callahan, a former Chicago resident who was robbed in the city two years ago, said she planned to move out of the city but escaped to Florida earlier than planned due to Chicago\u2019s coronavirus restrictions.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cOur plan was to reassess in the summer of 2022 where we wanted to go, but with COVID and city life in general \u2026 we decided to come to Florida in November,\u201d she said, explaining that the violence in the city was \u201ccreeping up into the North Side, which is where we lived.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, it\u2019s a city, so everywhere has its issues, but it\u2019s typically one of the safer areas. Carjackings, robberies \u2014 just to the point where I didn\u2019t feel safe alone outside if it was dark out,\u201d she said. \u201cIt just isn\u2019t a good way to live.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Warren Cohn, who formerly lived in New Jersey, close to Manhattan, also moved to Florida, describing it as an \u201copportunity to live outside, as well as get some tax benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd also, it\u2019s a state that has \u2026various freedoms. \u2026 I think that the governor has done a good job here allowing people to decide what\u2019s comfortable or not for themselves,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Gov. DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/05\/27\/gov-desantis-overwhelming-number-of-people-moving-to-florida-registering-as-republican\/\">noted<\/a> the phenomenon of people flocking to Florida.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike, literally last April, they\u2019re saying Florida\u2019s doing worse than New York. New York was like, ten times worse. And so I think what it did is, the people that buy those phony narratives for these media, they probably aren\u2019t coming to Florida,\u201d he said during an appearance&nbsp;on Fox News Channel\u2019s <em>Hannity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut most people see through it, but the people that see through it, they think like us. And so I think a lot of these people are coming. I think they\u2019re registering as Republicans overwhelming. And I also have come across a lot of people who quite frankly were Democrats,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News reported in November, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/21\/exclusive-theres-too-much-at-stake-florida-gop-vice-chairman-says-republicans-are-going-back-to-work-after-overtaking-democrats\/\">registered<\/a> Republican voters now outnumber Democrat voters in Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Florida residents are explaining why they flocked to the Sunshine State, praising the policies enacted by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R). 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