This passage has spawned numerous parodies, see below, as it could one of my own. More fundamentally, it is for DeSantis another misstep—before he officially has put his foot in the race--reflecting his amateurish campaign. One can picture DeSantis and his wife (That's it. That's the campaign.) sitting around the kitchen table writing his book and his wife having the brilliant idea to expand his biographical footprint: "Ron, do voters really want to 'make America like Florida'? 'Florida Man' is a meme, not a resume entry. We need to make you less weird-Florida." As a couple of the parodists allude, this itself is archetypal Florida Magic Kingdom-think: to reinvent yourself as someone who you are not. I'm feeling good about IndictmentMan's chances of mopping the floor with this jackanapes.
DeSantis wrote in his bestselling but poorly reviewed new memoir that he was “geographically raised in Tampa Bay,” referring to his upbringing largely in the Pinellas County community of Dunedin.
But he claimed his “cultural” background was quite different from his “geographical” one.
″[C]ulturally my upbringing reflected the working-class communities in western Pennsylvania and northeast Ohio — from weekly church attendance to the expectation that one would earn his keep,” he wrote. “This made me God-fearing, hard-working and America-loving.”
I was geographically raised in Orlando with a cultural perspective that allows me to easily detect BS when I see it. https://t.co/gihVkrrs3R
— Rep. Anna V. Eskamani 🔨 (@AnnaForFlorida) March 19, 2023
Geographically raised: Long Island
Culturally raised: Jurassic Park https://t.co/UpO5d8WlJI
— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) March 19, 2023
"I was geographically raised in Tampa Bay, but culturally my upbringing reflected the royal court at Versailles, with outstanding wigs, elegant discourse, and utter disregard for the seething class oppression necessary to sustain it."
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 19, 2023
I was geographically raised in Monmouth County, New Jersey, but culturally my upbringing taught me to to be repulsed by fake-ass pols like Ron DeSantis https://t.co/xnIQljUYTL
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) March 20, 2023
Ron DeSantis comes out as trans-geographically raised. https://t.co/wFcMKf2FvL
— Mitchell Robinson (@mrobmused) March 19, 2023
this presidential election cycle is going to be hysterical. "I was geographically raised here, but culturally i was raised in the most important swing states in the country." pic.twitter.com/vNb3Ss724u
— Dylan Goforth (@DGoforth918) March 19, 2023
DRAG-SANTIS: DeSantis will deny that Trans people even exist while simultaneously proclaiming Regional Dysmorphic Disorder. Is he cos-playing as a Pennsylvanian? Is this Ohio Drag?
— Brian Sims (@BrianSimsPA) March 19, 2023
I was *geographically* raised in the working class, God-fearing communities of Kentucky, Kansas, and Texas. But *culturally* I was raised inside of a magical wardrobe in WWII England. https://t.co/uMgn3SzhZ7
— Dr. Lydia Bean (@LydiaBeanLee) March 19, 2023
