Here's a thing I did for AJND, which is posted with Archangel Michael's blessing:
Florida, more than anywhere else in the United States can be considered the greatest failure of modern American domestic policy. Florida possesses a fiercely independent political culture spurred on by a continuing sense of betrayal by the Federal Government, along with the widespread belief that depopulating the state is something of a deliberate policy by said government.
After the Deluge and the subsequent decision by the Federal Government in 2051 that the state was not salvageable, despite managing to loose only six hundred people to the deluge out of a population of over twenty four million, the State of Florida saw the vast majority of it’s people resettled elsewhere, either in the midwest or off world (particularly to the Commonwealth of Dacia on Europa, where many former Floridian place names are preserved.) Of the pre-deluge population, less than two million remained, primarily in Northern Florida and the cities of Tampa and Lakeland, all of whom were to some degree or another traumatized by the Deluge and the events following. Since the ‘Deluge Generation’ took power support for achieving Commonwealth-level autonomy has been effectively a standard position in state politics, and Florida has seen minor gains towards this end here and there over the last eight decades.
The decades following the Deluge have seen a general trend of re-catholicization, increased bilingualism, and to a degree the beginnings of separate Floridian ethnogenesis, all of which are in stark contrast to National trends, as the state government has concentrated on environmental restoration in the inundated parts of the state and establishing a place for Florida in the context of both the United States and the wider Solar System. Popular opinion in the state of Florida, far outside the norms of opinion in the US hold that while membership in the latter is an indisputable fact, membership in the former is negotiable and not entirely desirable.
Of special note however is the odd relationship the government of Florida has with the Florida National Guard, and various Autonomist and Secessionist organizations which constitute the radical fringe in Floridian politics. There are rumblings and complaints that the Florida National Guard, which is disproportionately sized (and which also handles duties the NVPA would usually perform) has been infiltrated by radical autonomists and secessionists, something which is to a degree tolerated by the State Government, although prosecution of members of Terrorist organizations like the Reformed Knights of Sant’yago is exceptionally rare, and extrajudicial or clandestine punishment is instead the norm, possibly to protect the Florida Autonomism movement from the damage even a kangaroo court could bring. The only reported purge of the Florida National Guard’s ranks was after the 2120 attack on the US District Court in Tallahassee, in retaliation for the “forced transportation” of Floridian residents off-world by the Population Bureau of the Frontier Department, which only occurred after the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Florida National Guard stonewalled any investigation by the Federal Government. Additionally, peaceful protests against the existence of the Population Bureau and Office of Employment (but carefully silent about the bombing) were widespread across Florida in the immediate aftermath of the bombing, and were widely attended by state officials.
The Ionian Mutiny, although ocuring on a distant moon was closely watched in Florida, and changed little in the populations’ minds in regards to the nature of the Federal Government. However after the war, Floridians have been very careful as to leave the federal government without any grounds to interfere in their internal affairs, something which has allowed pacifists and moderates the chance to gain control of the state government for the first time in a generation.