"It is my hope that we're moving beyond racial appeals here in Florida and in the rest of the South as well. I say it's time we told the rest of the nation that we aren't caught up in the mania to stop busing at any cost, that we're trying to mature politically down here, that we know know the real issues when we see them and that we no longer will be fooled, frightened and divided against ourselves. That is how the South can lead other regions to a better understanding of what this country's all about."