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Originally Posted by SIGSEGV
What might change is the average political makeup of non-elected positions ("the deep state").
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Merriam-Webster defines "deep state" as "[A]n alleged secret network of especially nonelected government officials and sometimes private entities (as in the financial services and defense industries) operating extralegally to influence and enact government policy."
While all kinds of individuals, groups, and entities are constantly lobbying for laws and policies that will favor their own particular interests--everywhere, including Florida--I've never seen anything proving Tallahassee is the physical font of a 'deep state' as defined above. If someone wants to reveal a conspiracy operating out of the city of Tallahassee, I'm all ears.
The idea floated was that by simply moving Florida's capital from Tallahassee to Orlando, the state would turn 'blue.' How? It is asserted that such a move would alter the political makeup of unelected government staffers, as supposedly the new staffers would be to the left of the current staffers in Tallahassee.
But even if all that were true, it's irrelevant. We define states as 'blue' or 'red' based on electoral outcomes, based on who the ordinary voters elect to federal, state, and local offices. That reality would not change merely by hosting the state's elected officials in some other locale, let alone its unelected staffers.