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HISTORY The Florida Democratic Party has historically dominated Florida's state and local politics. Florida's Governor's Mansion was closed to Republicans from 1877 until 1967 , when Claude R. Kirk , a Republican from Jacksonville , was sworn-in as Governor Of Florida . Florida politics was largely dominated by the Democrats until Nixon's Southern Strategy , which took advantage of white objections to the advances of the American Civil Rights Movement resulted in a regional political Realignment for the south. Formerly Democratic Floridians from that point onward voted Democrat at the state and local level, but Republican at the national level. The Republicans then began constructing the coalition of business interests and conservative Christians that has allowed them to compete effectively in Florida's electoral politics for much of the last 30 years. As Of 2005 Florida Democrats are in their darkest days in state history. There are no Democrats elected to the Florida Cabinet and Florida only has one Democratic U.S. Senator. The once dominant party only holds eight of the twenty-five seats that Florida holds in the U.S. House Of Representatives . The Florida Legislature was the first to come under complete Republican control in the states of the former Confederacy, when the GOP took the majority in the State House of Representatives in 1996, after having held the Senate for the four years prior. The Legislature is now solidly Republican, less than ten years after the GOP takeover. In the from Tampa, Florida and Democratic State Senator Rod Smith from Alachua, Florida . The current chairman of the Florida Democratic Party is former U.S. Representative Karen Thurman . EXTERNAL LINKS
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