South Florida developed as an urban gambling resort center that posed both cultural and political challenges to the traditional southern values that animated the state’s approach to regulating vice. This article examines the conflicts over vice tourism in South Florida by focusing on the relationship between Governor Spessard Holland and former Miami Beach Mayor Louis “Snet” Snedigar. Snedigar became Holland’s undercover informant when the governor cracked down on illegal gambling as part of his effort to fund the state’s old-age pension program by taxing bets placed at horse tracks in South Florida. By exploring the entanglement between a conservative southern state and a “liberal” urban outpost, this article illustrates how the southern approach to urban development forestalled the emergence of South Florida as a recreational gambling resort comparable to Las Vegas.

南佛罗里达州发展成为一个城市赌博度假中心，这对传统的南方价值观既构成文化上的挑战，也带来了政治上的挑战，而传统的南部价值观激起了该州管理恶习的方式。本文着眼于州长Spessard Holland与前迈阿密海滩市长Louis“ Snet” Snedigar之间的关系，考察了南佛罗里达州副旅游业的冲突。当州长严厉打击非法赌博时，斯内迪加成为荷兰的卧底线人，这是他通过对南佛罗里达州赛马场上的赌注征税来资助该州的老年退休金计划的一部分。通过探索南部保守国家与“自由”城市前哨之间的纠缠，