In the 2008 Presidential election, John McCain received 421,287 votes (60.1%) in the Panhandle, while Barack Obama received 279,206 votes (39.9%).
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The 1983-84 television show Emerald Point N.A.S. was set in a naval air station somewhere in the American South, similar to Pensacola NAS.
The province extends along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico from the western end of the Florida Panhandle to near Ft. Myers in southern Florida.
The Wiregrass Region — or Wiregrass Country — is an area of the Southern United States encompassing parts of southern Georgia, southeastern Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle.
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Also, in the north of Florida, the southern swamp aster is found solely in Nassau County in the extreme northeast of the state, while the southern prairie aster is restricted to the western panhandle.
Her essays include a description of Dr. John Gorrie's quest to make ice in the Florida Panhandle, the story of Natural Bridge where the Confederate Army had their final victory, the inspiration composer Frederick Delius received from Black native music in Florida as well as various local fishermen, turpentine tappers, preachers, and other characters who lived in the rural area.
The son of Robert Russ and the former Sarah Gillam Hodges, Russ was born in Holmes Valley in Washington County, in the Florida Panhandle.