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 ===Elections history===
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-From 1952 to 1964, most voters were registered Democrats, but the state voted for the Republican presidential candidate in every election except for [[1964 United States presidential election|1964]]. The following year, Congress passed and President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] signed the [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]], providing for oversight of state practices and enforcement of constitutional voting rights for African Americans and other minorities in order to prevent the discrimination and disenfranchisement which had excluded most of them for decades from the political process.
+From 1952 to 1964, most voters were registered Democrats, but the state voted for the Republican presidential candidate in every election except for [[1964 United States presidential election|1964]]. The following year, Congress passed and President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]], providing for oversight of state practices and enforcement of constitutional voting rights for African Americans and other minorities in order to prevent the discrimination and disenfranchisement which had excluded most of them for decades from the political process.
 From the 1930s through much of the 1960s, Florida was essentially a one-party state dominated by white conservative Democrats, who together with other Democrats of the [[Solid South]], exercised considerable control in Congress. They have gained slightly less federal money from national programs than they have paid in taxes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://files.taxfoundation.org/legacy/docs/ftsbs-timeseries-20071016-.pdf|title=Alabama : Federal Taxes Paid vs. Federal Spending Received : 1981–present|website=Files.taxfoundation.org|access-date=October 23, 2018|archive-date=April 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412030238/https://files.taxfoundation.org/legacy/docs/ftsbs-timeseries-20071016-.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> Since the 1970s, conservative white voters in the state have largely shifted from the Democratic to the Republican Party. Though the majority of registered voters in Florida were Democrats,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dos.myflorida.com/elections/data-statistics/voter-registration-statistics/voter-registration-monthly-reports/voter-registration-current-by-county/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161024133158/http://dos.myflorida.com/elections/data-statistics/voter-registration-statistics/voter-registration-monthly-reports/voter-registration-current-by-county/|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 24, 2016|title=Voter Registration—Current by County—Division of Elections—Florida Department of State|date=October 24, 2016}}</ref> it continued to support Republican presidential candidates through 2004, except in [[1976 United States presidential election|1976]] and [[1996 United States presidential election|1996]], when the Democratic nominee was from [[Southern United States|the South]].