Population 2018 See also As of 2010 those of African ancestry accounted for 19.2% of Miami's population Of the city's total population 5.6% were West Indian or Afro-Caribbean American origin (4.4% Haitian 0.4% Jamaican 0.4% Bahamian 0.1% British West Indian and 0.1% Trinidadian and Tobagonian 0.1% Other or Unspecified West Indian) 3.0% were Black Hispanics and 0.4% were Subsaharan African origin. The city government under former mayor Manny Diaz took an ambitious stance in support of bicycling in Miami for both recreation and commuting Every month the city hosts "Bike Miami" where major streets in Downtown and Brickell are closed to automobiles but left open for pedestrians and bicyclists the event began in November 2008 and has doubled in popularity from 1,500 participants to about 3,000 in the October 2009 Bike Miami This is the longest-running such event in the US in October 2009 the city also approved an extensive 20-year plan for bike routes and paths around the city the city has begun construction of bike routes as of late 2009 and ordinances requiring bike parking in all future construction in the city became mandatory as of October 2009, Predevelopment flow direction of water from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay Source: U.S Geological Survey, Registered voters 1,441,187 52.18%. . . Main article: Geography and ecology of the Everglades Banks of the North-East Atlantic Florida Atlantic University (public).
4.3 Cuisine Homestead Air Reserve Base east of Homestead in an unincorporated area serves military traffic FIU has three museums the Frost Art Museum the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum and the Jewish Museum of Florida the Frost Art Museum is located on Modesto A Maidique campus and was opened in 1977 as the Art Museum at Florida International University the Frost Art Museum's Permanent Collection consists of a broad array of art objects from ancient cultural artifacts to contemporary works of art the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum is located in Miami Beach and promotes the collection preservation and understanding of decorative art and design from the period from 1885 to 1945 FIU also has a large sculpture collection named the Sculpture Park at FIU with sculptures from such prominent artists as Anthony Caro Jacques Lipchitz Daniel Joseph Martinez and Tony Rosenthal Many different art structures statues paintings and mosaics can be seen throughout campus in gardens buildings walkways and on walls. 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", Following the 1926 Miami hurricane many schools were destroyed the hurricane ended the 1920s land boom in Miami and ushered in the Great Depression to the area long before the actual market crash of 1929 the crash forced many more schools not destroyed by the hurricane to be closed Beginning in 1930 the school board faced its first overcrowding and funding problems. . .
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