Will Puerto Ricans new to Florida swing state to Democrats?
DAVENPORT, Fla. (AP) ” When Martha Santiago moved to Polk County, Florida, from Puerto Rico in 1979 to teach in one of the county’s first bilingual schools, there were two certainties.One was that oranges were an economic engine in the county that is wedged between Tampa and Orlando. The other was that orange picking and other agricultural labor was done mostly by undocumented workers from Mexico.Forty years later, Santiago is now Polk’s first Hispanic county commissioner. The […]
