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(113) 8.70 When Crandon Park got a zoo Virginia Key Beach got a pond with ornamental plants and so things began to change When wealthy residents of Key Biscayne and nearby Fisher Island needed a place to dump their garbage and pump their sewage the breezes on Virginia Key Beach turned sour the water clouded with effluents the long-term environmental impact has yet to be fully determined Still Virginia Key Beach remained a popular even sacred place within Miami's Black community. French American Chamber of Commerce, 13 State symbols Class of 2000 NASCAR (headquartered in Daytona Beach) begins all three of its major auto racing series in Florida at Daytona International Speedway in February featuring the Daytona 500 and ends all three Series in November at Homestead-Miami Speedway Daytona also has the Coke Zero Sugar 400 NASCAR race weekend around Independence Day in July the 24 Hours of Daytona is one of the world's most prestigious endurance auto races the Grand Prix of St Petersburg and Grand Prix of Miami have held IndyCar races as well. . . 1960 48.5% 748,700 51.5% 795,476, 1920 29,571 440.5% 5.2 Top government employers 18 Lauderhill Broward 57,585 66,887 72,094 +7.78% South Atlantic Miami Florida Business directory. Spain-United States Chamber of Commerce As part of the massive PortMiami redevelopment program new ultramodern cruise terminals roadways and parking garages have been constructed Additionally a new gantry crane dock and container storage yards have been constructed along with the electrification of the gantry crane docks to include the conversion of several cranes has been completed in addition the Port acquired two state-of-the-art super post-panamax gantry cranes which are amongst the largest in the world; able to load and unload 22 container (8 foot wide each) or nearly 200 foot wide mega container ships This along with the planned Deep Dredge Project would make it possible for PortMiami to facilitate even the future largest containerships in the world the Maersk Triple E Class the new and restructured roadway system with new lighting landscaping and signage greets visitors to the 'Cruise Capital of the World and Cargo Gateway of the Americas' the roadways will change again with the completion of the PortMiami Tunnel And to enhance cargo port accessibility the newly constructed Security Gates opened at the end of 2006 to increase the processing rate for container trucks and help eliminate the daily traffic backups. 1940 267,739 87.3% Other causeways are the John F Kennedy (79th Street) and Broad causeways (connecting the Miami mainland) and the Rickenbacker Causeway (connecting Miami to Key Biscayne) the Card Sound Bridge connects the mainland in the Homestead Florida area to the northern part of Key Largo, Medical Library In 1993 the first dredge of PortMiami occurred deepening it to 42 feet in 2006 a $40 million project to expand the South Harbor finished in 2011 a project to reconnect PortMiami to the mainland via railroad began in 2013 a dredging project began to deepen the harbors around PortMiami from 44 to 52 feet in April 2019 the Miami-Dade Tourism and Ports Committee approved a deal for Royal Caribbean Cruises to build a new office and parking garage on Dodge Island, As of 2010 those of African ancestry accounted for 16.0% of Florida's population which includes African Americans Out of the 16.0% 4.0% (741,879) were West Indian or Afro-Caribbean American During the early 1900s black people made up nearly half of the state's population in response to segregation disfranchisement and agricultural depression many African Americans migrated from Florida to northern cities in the Great Migration in waves from 1910 to 1940 and again starting in the later 1940s They moved for jobs better education for their children and the chance to vote and participate in society by 1960 the proportion of African Americans in the state had declined to 18% Conversely large numbers of northern whites moved to the state.[citation needed] Today large concentrations of black residents can be found in northern and central Florida Aside from blacks descended from African slaves brought to the southern U.S. there are also large numbers of blacks of West Indian recent African and Afro-Latino immigrant origins especially in the Miami/South Florida area! Miami-Dade County has voted for the Democratic Party candidate in most of the presidential elections in the past four decades and has gone Democratic in every election since 1992 However it did vote twice for Ronald Reagan (1980 1984) and once for George H W Bush (1988) From 1904 to 1972 it supported the Democratic candidate in all but four elections in 2008 and 2012 approximately 59.69% of the electorate voted for Democrat Barack Obama in 2016 Democrat Hillary Clinton won 63.22% of the vote.

In 2010 FIU was listed as one of 16 universities with the toughest grading system nationally, Management and Advanced Research Center 2002, 12.2 Cooperation agreements Also in 1933 the Miami City Commission asked the Miami Women's Club to create a city flag design the flag was designed by Charles L Gmeinder on their behalf and adopted by City Commission in November 1933 It is unknown why the orange and green colors were selected for the flag One theory is that the colors were inspired by the orange tree although the University of Miami was already using the colors of orange and green for their sports teams since 1926. 2.3 Rock A turning point came for development in the Everglades at the proposal in the late 1960s for an expanded airport after Miami International Airport outgrew its capacities the new jetport was planned to be larger than O'Hare Dulles JFK and LAX airports combined,[citation needed] and the chosen location was 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Everglades National Park the first sentence of the U.S Department of Interior study of the environmental impact of the jetport read "Development of the proposed jetport and its attendant facilities . will inexorably destroy the south Florida ecosystem and thus the Everglades National Park" When studies indicated the proposed jetport would create 4,000,000 US gallons (15,000,000 L) of raw sewage a day and 10,000 short tons (9,100 t) of jet engine pollutants a year the project met staunch opposition the New York Times called it a "blueprint for disaster" and Wisconsin senator Gaylord Nelson wrote to President Richard Nixon voicing his opposition: "It is a test of whether or not we are really committed in this country to protecting our environment." Governor Claude Kirk withdrew his support for the project and Marjory Stoneman Douglas was persuaded at 79 years old to go on tour to give hundreds of speeches against it Nixon instead established Big Cypress National Preserve announcing it in the Special Message to the Congress Outlining the 1972 Environmental Program, The Castillo de San Marcos Originally white with red corners its design reflects the colors and shapes of the Cross of Burgundy and the subsequent Flag of Florida, During the 1970s Miami was a news leader due to the response to a Dade County ordinance protecting individuals on the basis of sexual orientation.[citation needed] Opposition to this ordinance which was repealed was led by Florida orange juice spokeswoman Anita Bryant; In the 2010s Miami had a growing scene based around cloud rap that began to emerge with rappers such as SpaceGhostPurrp Yung Simmie and Denzel Curry Traditional trap music normal in other areas of the south such as Atlanta and Texas began to gain popularity in Florida with artists like Kodak Black entering the mainstream Curry and Kodak Black were later featured on the XXL 2016 Freshmen cover which features the rappers generally breaking into the mainstream and on the verge of being popular, FIUSM.com is the FIU student-run media website since 2008 FIUSM.com publishes content generated by the Student Media team including text audio and video! High schools Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake Florida near Orlando, 1984 34.7% 1,448,816 65.3% 2,730,350 Zoo Miami Miami Though spelled the same in English the Florida city's name has nothing to do with the Miami people who lived in a completely different part of North America.