 Voters from reliably Democratic states in the Northeast had also been migrating to Florida since the 1950s.The state's electorate was becoming more diverse in general, with growing Asian and Hispanic immigrant populations.Meanwhile, there was heavy backlash in the Cuban-American population against Democrats during the Elian Gonzalez dispute, during which Janet Reno, President Bill Clinton’s Attorney General, ordered the six-year-old Cuban refugee to be returned to Cuba.