. 1984 34.7% 1,448,816 65.3% 2,730,350 The Battle of Olustee during the American Civil War 1864.
Operational risk Main article: List of invasive species in the Everglades, American Airlines Arena home of the Miami Heat! In 1964 Senate Bill 711 was introduced by Florida Senator Robert M Haverfield it instructed the state Board of Education and the Board of Regents (BOR) to begin planning for the development of a state university in Miami the bill was signed into law by then-governor W Haydon Burns in June 1965 marking FIU's official founding. Contents TUI fly Belgium Brussels (ends August 31 2019) 3.1.1 Concourse D Limestone formations in South Florida Source: U.S Geological Survey The bay is divided from the Atlantic Ocean by the many barrier isles along the coast one of which is where well-known Miami Beach is located home to South Beach and the Art Deco district the Florida Keys which are also barrier islands are only accessible through Miami-Dade County but which are otherwise part of neighboring Monroe County Miami is seventy miles from West Palm Beach and thirty miles from Fort Lauderdale. 10 External links From the 1930s through much of the 1960s Florida was essentially a one-party state dominated by white conservative Democrats who together with other Democrats of the "Solid South" exercised considerable control in Congress They have gained slightly less federal money from national programs than they have paid in taxes Since the 1970s conservative white voters in the state have largely shifted from the Democratic to the Republican Party Though the majority of registered voters in Florida are Democrats it continued to support Republican presidential candidates through 2004 except in 1976 and 1996 when the Democratic nominee was from "the South". . 2.2 Cityscape Migrants to the region who wanted to develop plantations first proposed draining the Everglades in 1848 but no work of this type was attempted until 1882 Canals were constructed throughout the first half of the 20th century and spurred the South Florida economy prompting land development in 1947 Congress formed the Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Project which built 1,400 miles (2,300 km) of canals levees and water control devices the Miami metropolitan area grew substantially at this time and Everglades water was diverted to cities Portions of the Everglades were transformed into farmland where the primary crop was sugarcane Approximately 50 percent of the original Everglades has been developed as agricultural or urban areas.
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