Tampa Bay loves its city and neighborhood pride. It's common in Tampa and St. Pete to see houses display flags for neighborhoods like Historic Kenwood and Seminole Heights.

• An artist in Dunedin has painted more than 1,000 oranges across the city, a nod to its citrusy history.

Driving the news: Now, thanks to a recently formed, all-female art collective in Pinellas County, residents in Palm Harbor, Safety Harbor and Tarpon Springs can get in on the trend.

• Inspired by the Dunedin oranges, Palm Harbor's Michelle Wright created a little palm tree to represent her community, and she worked with other artists to design a sponge-diver helmet for Tarpon Springs and an anchor for Safety Harbor.

Flashback: Over the pandemic, Wright, 38, quit her insurance job to pursue an art career and was looking for ways to get her name out there.

• In August 2021, she posted her palm tree design in the 36,000-member Palm Harbor Happenings Facebook group, asking if anyone wanted her to paint one on their home at no cost. The only rule was that it had to be on the exterior of the house to achieve a visible sense of community.
• Wright, who is better known by her artist name, Michelle Sasha, expected 10 or 20 people to sign up. Within an hour, there were 100, and in the next few days, another 200.

State of play: By the spring of 2022, she'd painted 500 trees across the community — all for free — and the requests were still coming in. Wright needed help.

• Enter Shiyenne Muentes and Meredith Solomon, both 18.
• Muentes cold messaged Wright's sister, who connected the two, to see if she wanted a mural on the Palm Harbor hair salon she owns.
• Solomon helped between clarinet rehearsals for the Tarpon Springs High marching band. And since graduating this year, she's thrown herself back into painting.

The latest: The collective now has about a dozen artists, Wright said, six of whom work full time. The group is made of women and girls, which she said happened organically, and she's glad to add more female representation to the street art scene.

Want a mural?

📆 Check out what's going on this weekend.

• Tampa Tarpons vs. Lakeland Flying Tigers on July 15:
• Join the Tampa Tarpons in celebrating Latin Heritage Night at George M. Steinbrenner Field.
• Enjoy an unforgettable evening of fun, food, festivities, and Tarpons baseball!
• Enjoy all-you-can-eat (& drink) for 2.5 hours in the AnyDesk Dugout Club. Includes a varied menu each Saturday, soda, water, beer & wine for $40 in advance or $45 the day of.

Hosting an event? Email [email protected].

🐍 A new Florida record for the longest Burmese python captured in the state has been set: 19 feet and 125 pounds. The female snake was caught in Big Cypress National Preserve. (WTSP)

🏌️ Birdie Club, an indoor golf bar and lounge, is coming to South Tampa. It will feature three simulators allowing people to practice their swings in cool conditions. (Tampa Bay Times)

🚨 Hillsborough County officials are dealing with a spike in fentanyl-related overdoses and arrests. The sheriff's office says 174 people have been arrested this year for dealing or possessing the drug. (WUSF)

• Hillsborough State Attorney Suzy Lopez said there were 126 criminal cases related to fentanyl in 2022, up from nine in 2018.

⚾️ The Tampa Bay Rays return to action tonight for the second half of the MLB season. They have six road games — three against the Kansas City Royals and Texas Rangers — before returning home to face the Baltimore Orioles in a four-game set.

Gov. Ron DeSantis' positions on LGBTQ+ issues aren't landing with a group of Minnesota swing voters, with several describing him as a "wannabe dictator" in Axios' latest Engagious/Sago focus groups, our Alexi McCammond reports.

Why it matters: The culture wars that have boosted DeSantis' popularity in Florida (and now, he hopes, nationally) are souring his image with some voters in a key Midwestern state.

Driving the news: Axios sat in on two online focus groups Tuesday night with 13 Minnesotans who voted for Trump in 2016 and Biden in 2020. Nine identify as independent, three as Republican, and one as a Democrat.

Zoom in: No one said they're more likely to vote for DeSantis for president after being shown a video, shared by his campaign online, that portrays him as an anti-LGBTQ+ crusader.

• All but three described the video as "troubling."
• "The video makes it seem like DeSantis is proud to be anti-trans," said Mike K.
• Another participant, Mark B., was disturbed by what he saw as "pure hate" from DeSantis toward the LGBTQ+ community.

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It's not just about the coasts and the bubbles anymore: Six fast-growing states in the South now add more to the national GDP than the Northeast, the perennial powerhouse, Bloomberg reports.

Why it matters: Americans are spreading out, physically and economically, writes Axios' Mike Allen.

• Those six states — Florida, Texas, Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee — are in the middle of a "$100 billion wealth migration" as the U.S. economic center of gravity tilts south, Bloomberg notes.
• The switch happened during peak COVID. There's no sign it'll reverse.

By the numbers: A flood of transplants helped steer about $100 billion in new income to the Southeast in 2020 and 2021 alone, while the Northeast bled out about $60 billion, Bloomberg writes from IRS data.

Go deeper: America's economy rapidly shifts south