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Florida…here’s something I’ve noticed.
Folks from the outside need to update their mental model about us.
You’re still picturing beaches, retirees, and Florida Man headlines.
Here’s the actual scoreboard:
→ $1.8 trillion economy. Just passed Australia. Then Mexico. 14th largest on the planet. South Korea is 2% of growth away.
→ Three combatant commands. CENTCOM. SOCOM. SOUTHCOM. No other state/region commands more of the world from its own soil.
→ The Space Coast launches more rockets than most countries have ever launched, period.
→ The #1 ranked higher ed system in America — and it’s quietly running the largest adult reskilling machine in the country.
→ A region that could lead responsibly around the convergence of energy/compute/opportunity.
Now the honest part: affordability is an existential threat. Insurance, housing, the cost of staying. If Florida wins the world and loses our people, none of the above matters.
This is not an Or proposition — it is an And decision. We can build/attract and steward.
We aren’t a place with merely a state level economy anymore.
We are a nation-state level actor that must define what America will look like in the second half of the 21st century.
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