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'White power' flare-up in retirement haven reveals tensions

'White power' flare-up in retirement haven reveals tensionsThere has always been a low-boil tension in The Villages retirement community between the Republican majority and the much smaller cohort of Democrats, but a veneer of good manners in “Florida's Friendliest Hometown" mostly prevailed on golf courses and at bridge tables. A video clip of that confrontation in America’s largest retirement community was tweeted approvingly by Trump last weekend and then taken down. “It's like a powder keg here," said resident Alan Stone.




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