The unique and diverse nature of Florida’s population, as well as its recent history, makes attending to the needs of non-English-proficient language minorities in the voting process especially important. During the latter half of the twentieth century, Florida experienced enormous changes in the relative size, geographical distribution, and composition of its population. Some, but not all, of these changes can be attributed to national trends in population migration to the Sunbelt. Other changes can be explained by an increase in Hispanic or Latino population, again a national trend. Still other changes are the direct result of political changes in the Caribbean basin into which the peninsula of Florida extends, and United States’ policies that respond to those changes.