Book Bans in Florida Moving to the Core of the State’s Political Discussions

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Since 2021, more than a dozen Republican-controlled states have passed laws or approved executive branch policies that restrict how public school teachers can talk about race, gender and sexual orientation, as in the case of the bill critics call “don’t say gay,” which Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law last week. But now, even as National Library Week arrives this week, the attempt to limit what materials are available to young people is spilling out from the classroom into the library.

Florida seems to want to fashion itself after its neighbor Alabama, where ignorance is the coin of the realm.

Large demographic shifts don’t happen overnight, but if this becomes an entrenched trend that persists (and worsens) over a period of decades, we can expect Florida to have all the cultural and economic relevance of Mississippi (see photo).