During what would turn out to be a 12-year stint in office, Ferré transformed Miami from a one-trick tourist destination into a thriving cosmopolitan city by fostering high-rise construction and opening the city’s ports to international business.

Adams carried most of the city’s neighborhoods outside its cosmopolitan core.

Its cosmopolitan hippies and surfers and acid burnouts still exist, but they share a state with millions of people who are more rural, more conservative, more rugged.

At the same time, though, where Bush was incurious and parochial, Obama was intellectual and cosmopolitan.