 Politically, Leon County now stands out as easily the most liberal ("blue", Democratic) county in all of north Florida.This change is due to the influx into Tallahassee of many students and workers from other parts of the state, and from outside the state and outside the South.Primarily this has been driven by the birth and great expansion of Florida State University, founded in 1947, to some extent to serve World War II veterans studying under the G.I.