The Problem with Hernando County = Yankees

If you have never visited Spring Hill/Hernando Beach then you must think that it is some magical little town, full of Southern charm, and graced with wonderful natural God-given beauty. In reality Spring Hill is no of these, well at least not any longer.

Back prior to the arrival of the Yankee owned development company, Deltona which slunk its way over to the East coast of the state, from its home base over in Daytona Beach, Hernando County was truly deserving of the title bestowed upon it, the Nature Coast. For miles and miles, from the I75 corridor all the way to US 19, there were only trees, farm land, and natural beauty to be had by all. Back during the pre-1960’s era of Hernando County it was regarded as one of the top tourist destinations in the state of Florida, not because it had 3-4 Wal-Marts and one New York style pizzeria on top of another like it does today, but because it had none of those things. Back during this era, and really up until about 1968, Hernando County was not just “Old Florida”, as the Yankees and their media mouthpieces ignorantly call it, but because it was truly Gods country.

Today Hernando County is a shell of its former self. Only the Eastern portion of the county still has its natural untouched beauty, while the Western half has been all but ruined by an invasive foreign species that will give any rodent or swarm of locusts a run for its money in its ability to destroy and terrorize a native Florida community. The pest that I’m speaking of is the Yankee, which in my book, and in the books of many other Southerners, is hands down the most vile and destructive squatter known to man.

Since the 1960’s when Deltona Corp in cooperation with a turn-coat County Commission began to advertise in Yankee papers, Hernando County, well mostly Spring Hill, has been inundated with a steady stream of these people.