{"id":6837,"date":"2021-12-17T13:05:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T13:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6837"},"modified":"2021-12-17T13:05:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T13:05:08","slug":"how-climate-migrants-are-roiling-american-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6837","title":{"rendered":"How \u2018Climate Migrants\u2019 Are Roiling American Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Kissimmee gained a whopping 10,000 new residents between 2017 and 2020, according to census data. Osceola County, where Kissimmee is located, and neighboring Orange County saw their combined Puerto Rican population jump<\/a> more than 12 percent. The changes were so profound that Gonz\u00e1lez found herself competing with two other Puerto Rican candidates to become Kissimmee\u2019s mayor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHurricane Maria … served as a reintroduction of the Puerto Rican population into Central Florida,\u201d said Fernando Rivera, director of the Puerto Rico Research Hub at the University of Central Florida. Now, \u201cwe\u2019re seeing growth in the leadership [of Puerto Ricans].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The concept of climate migration \u2014 population shifts forced by destructive weather changes \u2014 has been studied for years. But most Americans still think of it as something that happens elsewhere, or a future doomsday scenario about people flocking to North Dakota to escape extreme weather along the coasts. But experts are saying it\u2019s happening in subtler ways already, forcing people to make moves as dramatic as the influx of Puerto Ricans to central Florida and as mundane as people in tidewater Virginia choosing one county over another to live in to avoid a possible flood plain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But as evidenced by Gonz\u00e1lez\u2019s election, such changes are significant enough to start scrambling the political map, with experts foreseeing a cascading effect of changes to come.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2021\/11\/27\/how-climate-migrants-are-roiling-american-politics-523295<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Kissimmee gained a whopping 10,000 new residents between 2017 and 2020, according to census data. Osceola County, where Kissimmee is located, and neighboring Orange County saw their combined Puerto Rican population jump more than 12 percent. The changes were so profound that Gonz\u00e1lez found herself competing with two other Puerto Rican candidates to become Kissimmee\u2019s mayor.<\/p>\n

\u201cHurricane Maria … served as a reintroduction of the Puerto Rican population into Central Florida,\u201d said Fernando Rivera, director of the Puerto Rico Research Hub at the University of Central Florida. Now, \u201cwe\u2019re seeing growth in the leadership [of Puerto Ricans].\u201d<\/p>\n

The concept of climate migration \u2014 population shifts forced by destructive weather changes \u2014 has been studied for years. But most Americans still think of it as something that happens elsewhere, or a future doomsday scenario about people flocking to North Dakota to escape extreme weather along the coasts. But experts are saying it\u2019s happening in subtler ways already, forcing people to make moves as dramatic as the influx of Puerto Ricans to central Florida and as mundane as people in tidewater Virginia choosing one county over another to live in to avoid a possible flood plain.<\/p>\n

But as evidenced by Gonz\u00e1lez\u2019s election, such changes are significant enough to start scrambling the political map, with experts foreseeing a cascading effect of changes to come.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[105,626,471,104,1232,493,25,1492,1491,1183],"class_list":["post-6837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-climate-change","tag-demographics","tag-florida","tag-global-warming","tag-hurricane","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-puerto-rican","tag-puerto-rico","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6838,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6837\/revisions\/6838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}