Following
The 1959 Cuban Revolution That Unseated Fulgencio Batista
And Brought Fidel Castro
To Power
Most Cubans Who Were Living
In Miami Returned
To Cuba
Soon After
However
Many Middle Class
And Upper Class Cubans Moved
To Florida En Masse With Few Possessions
Some Miamians Were Upset About This
Especially
The African Americans
Who Believed That
The Cuban Workers Were Taking Their Jobs.[citation Needed]
In Addition
The School Systems Struggled
To Educate
The Thousands Of Spanish-speaking Cuban Children
Many Miamians
Fearing That
The Cold War Would Become World War III
Left
The City
While Others Started Building Bomb Shelters
And Stocking Up
On Food
And Bottled Water
Many Of Miami's Cuban Refugees Realized For
The First Time That
It Would Be
A Long Time Before They Would Get Back
To Cuba
In 1965 Alone
100,000 Cubans Packed Into
The Twice Daily "freedom Flights" From Havana
To Miami
Most Of
The Exiles Settled Into
The Riverside Neighborhood
Which Began
To Take
On
The New Name Of "Little Havana"
This Area Emerged As
A Predominantly Spanish-speaking Community
And Spanish Speakers Elsewhere
In
The City Could Conduct Most Of Their Daily Business
In Their Native Tongue
By
The End Of
The 1960s
More Than Four Hundred Thousand Cuban Refugees Were Living
In Dade County
. ! . .
. SR 878 (Snapper Creek Expressway): SR 874/Kendall
to U.S
Route 1/Pinecrest & South Miami
In addition
to annual festivals like
the Calle Ocho Festival
Miami
is home
to many entertainment venues
theaters
museums
parks
and performing arts centers
the newest addition
to
the Miami arts scene
is
the Adrienne Arsht Center for
the Performing Arts
home of
the Florida Grand Opera and
the second-largest performing arts center
in
the United States after Lincoln Center
in New York City
the center attracts many large-scale operas
ballets
concerts
and musicals from around
the world
Other performing arts venues
in Miami include
the Olympia Theater
Wertheim Performing Arts Center
the Fair Expo Center
the Tower Theater
and
the Bayfront Park Amphitheater. Population 2010
to 2018
In 2011
there were about 9,000 retail gas stations
in
the state
Floridians consumed 21 million gallons of gasoline daily
in 2011
ranking
it third
in national use behind California
and Texas
Motorists have
the 45th lowest rate of car insurance
in
the U.S
24%
are uninsured!
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