Question: What doe s the law require for criminals 
Answer: felons to have completed sentencing, parole and/or probation, and then seven years later, to apply individually for restoration of voting privileges

Question: Who does this law effect most 
Answer: this law has disproportionate effects for minorities

Question: How does it effect elections 
Answer: one in ten Floridians – and nearly one in four African-American Floridians – are shut out of the polls because of felony convictions

Question: What percentage of the population considers themselves American 
Answer: 6.9% of the population (1,269,765) considered themselves to be of only American ancestry

Question: In the 1980 census the largest ancestry group in Florida was 
Answer: largest ancestry group reported in Florida was English with 2,232,514 Floridians claiming that they were of English or mostly English American ancestry

Question: How far back did some of the Ancestry go 
Answer: back to the original thirteen colonies.

Question: As of 2010 what percentage of Florida was white / non Hispanic 
Answer: those of (non-Hispanic white) European ancestry accounted for 57.9% of Florida's population

Question: What percentage of florida was white Non Hispanic in 1970 
Answer: In 1970, non-Hispanic whites were nearly 80% of Florida's population

Question: What do many white long term floridian families identify with 
Answer: long-time Florida families, may refer to themselves as "Florida crackers

Question: Most  white  Florida Immigrants descend from 
Answer: mainly from English and Scots-Irish settlers, as well as some other British American settlers

Question: What percentage of the Florida population in 2010 was Hispanic 
Answer: Hispanic or Latino ancestry ancestry accounted for 22.5% (4,223,806) of Florida's population

Question: What Origin makes up most of the Hispanics in Florida 
Answer: Out of the 22.5%, the largest groups were 6.5% (1,213,438) Cuban

Question: What percentage of Cuban Americans live in Florida 
Answer: Nearly 80% of Cuban Americans live in Florida, especially South Florida

Question: What is percentage of Puerto Ricans in Florida 
Answer: the second largest Puerto Rican population after New York, as well as the fastest-growing in the nation

Question: What percentage of Florida was African american in 2010 
Answer: As of 2010, those of African ancestry accounted for 16.0% of Florida's population

Question: what percentage of florida was black in the early 1900's 
Answer: During the early 1900s, black people made up nearly half of the state's population

Question: What did many black migrate from florida 
Answer: response to segregation, disfranchisement and agricultural depression, many African Americans migrated from Florida to northern cities

Question: Where does the African population in florida have ancestry roots 
Answer: African slaves brought to the US south, there are also large numbers of blacks of West Indian, recent African, and Afro-Latino immigrant origins

Question: Voter demographics of florida in the 1950's 
Answer: 1952 to 1964, most voters were registered Democrats, but the state voted for the Republican presidential candidate in every election except for 1964

Question: what did the voting rights act provide for 
Answer: Voting Rights Act of 1965, providing for oversight of state practices and enforcement of constitutional voting rights for African Americans and other minorities

Question: what president signed the voting right act 
Answer: President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Question: What party dominated florida politics from 1930 to 1960 
Answer: 1930s through much of the 1960s, Florida was essentially a one-party state dominated by white conservative Democrats

Question: Does Florida benefit from taxes
Answer: Florida residents have received more federal monies than they pay in taxes: the state is a net beneficiary

Question: What party political party dominates Florida now 
Answer: Since the 1970s, the conservative white majority of voters in the state has largely shifted from the Democratic to the Republican Party

Question: How does Florida vote in presidential elections 
Answer: continued to support Republican presidential candidates through the 20th century, except in 1976 and 1996, when the Democratic nominee was from the South

Question: What do these candidates that Florida supports pledge  
Answer: the luxury of voting for presidential candidates who pledge to cut taxes and halt the expansion of government

Question: The first post- reconstruction era republican elected to florida 
Answer: William C. Cramer in 1954 from Pinellas County

Question: What is Cramer credited for 
Answer: Cramer built a different Republican Party in Florida, attracting local white conservatives and transplants from northern and midwestern states

Question: Who was Claude R Kirk 
Answer: 966 Claude R. Kirk, Jr. was elected as the first post-Reconstruction Republican governor, in an upset election

Question: Who was Edward j Gurney 
Answer: 968 Edward J. Gurney, also a white conservative, was elected as the state's first post-reconstruction Republican US Senator

Question: What did the Democrat party do in the 1970
Answer: 1970 Democrats took the governorship and the open US Senate seat, and maintained dominance for years

Question: What did democrat voters do in 1998 
Answer: In 1998, Democratic voters dominated areas of the state with a high percentage of racial minorities and transplanted white liberals

Question: What are snowbirds 
Answer: white liberals from the northeastern United States, known colloquially as "snowbirds

Question: What party dominates South Florida and Miami 
Answer: racial minorities and white liberals. Because of this, the area has consistently voted as one of the most Democratic areas of the state

Question: which party dominates most of the rest of florida 
Answer: Republicans, made up mostly of white conservatives, have dominated throughout much of the rest of Florida

Question: What is the make up politically of florida's fastest growing area 
Answer: Daytona Beach, Orlando, and Tampa/St. Petersburg, has had a fairly even breakdown of Republican and Democratic voters

Question: The area is viewed as what politically
Answer: The area is often seen as a merging point of the conservative northern portion of the state and the liberal southern portion

Question: The vote in this area since the late 20th century decides what 
Answer: the voting results in this area, containing 40% of Florida voters, has often determined who will win the state of Florida in presidential elections

Question: What has reappointment done to florida 
Answer: Reapportionment following the 2010 United States Census gave the state two more seats in the House of Representatives

Question: What was challenged in 2012 
Answer: The legislature's redistricting, announced in 2012, was quickly challenged in court, on the grounds that it had unfairly benefited Republican interests

Question: How did the Florida supreme court rule on the challenge 
Answer: Florida Supreme Court ruled on appeal that the congressional districts had to be redrawn because of the legislature's violation of the Fair District Amendments

Question: What hapend to the Florida congressional map in 2015 
Answer: it accepted a new map in early December 2015.

Question: What hapend in the 2000 election 
Answer: Out of more than 5.8 million votes for the two main contenders Bush and Al Gore, around 500 votes separated the two candidates

Question: How severe is Florida's Disenfranchisement law 
Answer: Florida's felony disenfranchisement law is more severe than most European nations or other American states

Question: What did this mean in the 2000 election 
Answer: if the state’s 827,000 disenfranchised felons had voted at the same rate as other Floridians, Democratic candidate Al Gore would have won Florida