Voters assemble in southern melting pot

BROWARD COUNTY in Southern Florida can’t be explained like any other place in America, even the vast sprawls of suburbia that you get only in America.

For there is no town centre or the remnants of what was once a village. If there is a focal point, a centre, it has to be the sea. But even there everything is strung out for mile after mile.

A northern suburb of Fort Lauderdale, the way it has been shaped has relied on three factors: the ocean; the warm climate and the highway. The bluffs overlooking the ocean are ribboned with high-rise condominiums, where rich retirees from New York, Boston and Washington now live.