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The Strangeness of the Sunshine State

By Jason Ferguson
Orlando Weekly | November 5, 2005
If you think Northerners believe Florida is fucked-up now, wait until you read a late 19th-century journalist's wide-eyed tales of alligator-hunting, "music-loving cows" and "weak-kneed Democrats."
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