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The Florida Squeeze 
My question is why are you wasting your time writing about this crap when we need you writing about DeSantis and the legislature?
No one cares.
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Congratulations on the book. I must say I was skeptical, but I ordered it on the Kindle and I learned a whole lot.
My big question for you is why did the colonists not actively court Florida?
Why did they not move or settle in big numbers in Florida after it became British?
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How did Saint Augustine compare commercially to places like Charleston and Savannah?
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Why didn’t the Spanish ever try and repopulate the interior of Florida after Queen Anne’s War?
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