Actual Headline: "CA Farmers Supported Trump, But Now Fear Losing Field Workers"

[DonCoquixote]

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What through this exact same story to repeat in Florida. Here in Florida, many of the workers in the orange groves and Strawberry Fields are Mexican. Many of them have their kids in school, who as natural born American citizens, often wind up forming small businesses or becoming professionals. Many of them going to the military. It is one thing to make California angry, as that state will be hard blue. However, this band will go ahead and cut straight to the profit margins of Florida citrus barons, exactly the sort of people who donate to political candidates.

Pretty soon, Florida will have the Strawberry Festival. It is one of the largest festivals in the South, the sort of place where Kenny Rogers or Shania Twain will go ahead and play the stadium where a few hours ago some local band played. However, while this vessel is very much one of the few remnants of old Florida before Disney, even the area around the festival grounds shows the immigrant influence. For example, there are a whole bunch of Mexican restaurants right around the festival grounds, ones that get their produce from the same market that the old server diners like Fred's market did. Last year the festival wound up booking, in addition to reliable country chestnuts, Mexican bands: ones that ranged from the Tejano ones (think Selena) to mariachi ones. Of course, the vessel operators just saw that as the festival growing, which it did. They even had an announcement, calling this "Hola Plant city", even though the announcer did pronounce the Spanish and a very old Florida Southern accent, people were happy to be welcome.

The reason I'm serving you this slice of Central Florida culture is to show that even in Plant City, Florida, one of the few areas in central Florida that is a strong bastion of the original Dixie Florida culture, the Mexicans have woven themselves into the economy. Now, if Mr. Trump decides to go ahead and start purging Mexicans, the truth is some people were really going to feel the impact are going to be the old Southerners. It will not just be that there will be no more Mexicans to pick the oranges and strawberries, although that will be a big part of it, but a lot of the small businesses that help keep the mall rents reasonable and the bank loans coming will be gone. Of course, those of us who understand the game that Trump and his handlers were really playing will know the true score, namely that the northern banks will come in and pick people off, selling Florida land to carpetbaggers like the one who owns a compound in Florida called Mir a Lago. Seriously, with all the complaining about New York bankers coming down here and messing up Florida, I'm still amazed at the fact that Donald Trump, who is a living example of the very worst aspects of New York, especially all the real estate industry which many Florida natives consider a bane of their existence.

In any case, listen for many stories exactly like the opinion piece showed, but look for them in Florida especially, because for all the talk about making Trump voters see things our way, that will be a prime opportunity, because once they see Trump and his friends gladly putting Florida native meat on the same plate as the Mexican American meat, they will realize they are in trouble.