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- ↑ American Party of Florida website, http://americanpartyofflorida.com/; Southern Poverty Law Center website, http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2008/spring/. The term nativist can refer to opposition to legal and illegal immigration. The APF had only stated opposition to illegal immigration.
- ↑ APF website; Florida Division of Elections website, http://election.dos.state.fl.us/committee/ Archived 2012-03-31 at the Wayback Machine .
- ↑ APF website
