AHC: a heavily fortified Florida

Hello everyone. I've been thinking of making a few Challenges purely to get peoples' creative juices flowing. They are meant to be vague and strange, and can be arrived at in any method the writer so chooses (for example, the end result doesn't have to be an American Florida) Any type of POD, single or multiple, at any point, is acceptable. So, the first challenge is:

Have the Florida peninsula be one of the most heavily fortified places on Earth by the year 2013.

(a side note: I don't like how often i see the term ASB thrown around. Just avoid things that are physically impossible, and have fun with the possibilities. You may ignore the panhandle if you please.)
 
Say, for instance, in a CSA survives TL, the Union keeps the Keys and Southern Florida (under Okeechobee??) leading to extreme fortifications on each side of the line?
 
What do you have in mind when speaking of making Florida fortified? Are you talking about the US military having a strong presence there and always on high alert? If so, here are a few ways to do that:

Have the Cuban Missile Crisis get resolved in a manner which allows Castro to keep the Soviet nuclear missiles. On top of that, the Soviet Space Program opts to construct a spaceport in Cuba as well, and/or if the Red Army/Navy establishes a naval presence there (or if Cuba builds up their own) we're potentially talking tensions resembling the Korean Peninsula or Taiwan-PRC in the Florida Straits. The US responds to such developments by turning South Florida into a state of preparedness that among other things involves turning The whole of Key West into a major military base.

But that scenario is mainly possible in a Soviet-wank/survival TL.

Alternatively, the US has a 2nd revolution during the Great Depression, and the outgoing regime decides to set up camp in Cuba until "normalcy" is restored on the mainland. Thus, a set-up just like that between Taiwan and the PRC emerges.
 
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