Quoting Trent W. Buck (trentbuck@gmail.com):
With hilarious results (FL, not CA): http://loweringthebar.net/2013/09/lousy-war-on-terror-arguments.html (Thanks to JWZ, from whom I found that blog.)
Florida has for many decades been the idiot child of US states -- too systemically incompetent to achieve the corruption it aspires to. The north and rural parts of the state (including the Florida panhandle) are dominated by 'good old boy' traditional Southern redneck hicks. That's the original wellspring of the incompetence and corruption strain in Florida public life. The south and urban part is dominated by anti-Castro Cuban refugees (adding a special Latino brand of corruption, violence, and assorted craziness) and by hordes of snowbird retirees from elsewhere in the country. It's nearly traditional to say 'It's dumb and Floridian - but I repeat myself.'