James Lankford: “This is the big reason that Florida has continued to grow so…”

“… people with American values and capitalism and freedom and the folks that are there are thriving on socialism. And this is why a lot of people have left New York. This is the big reason that Florida has continued to grow so fast. Because people are leaving New York and moving to Florida and other places on the east coast. because New York has less and less and less freedom, as odd as that sounds. The place of basically the home plate of capitalism and Wall street and so many innovations and international companies and everything else that are based there.” (10:02–10:11)

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