Cuban Americans
Floridian Caribbean immigrants
Cuban Americans are people of Cuban ancestry living in the United States.
The community is concentrated in South Florida, particularly Miami, where Cuban culture significantly shapes local politics, cuisine, and Spanish dialect.
Unlike most Latino groups, Cuban Americans have historically leaned Republican, shaped by anti-Castro exile politics.
Little Havana is the heart of Cuban American Miami.
- Fidel CastroCuban revolutionary dictator
- Spanish languageRomance tongue from Iberia
- Bay of PigsFailed 1961 invasion site
- Celia CruzLegendary Cuban salsa vocalist
- salsa musicCaribbean-jazz fusion genre
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- Latino CultureLatino, Chicana, Tejano, barrios, Spanish language
- Caribbean diasporaWindrush, Afro-Caribbean, chain migration, transnationalism, dual citizenship
- Cuba-US RelationsBay of Pigs, trade embargo, normalization, rapprochement, diplomatic ties
- Florida HistorySt. Augustine, Ponce de Leon, Everglades, Spanish exploration, Seminole
- Gulf Coast peopleshrimpers, oystermen, Cajuns, Creoles, fishermen
- demographicspopulation density, population growth, age distribution, population, gender ratio
Cuban AmericansMexican Americans
U.S. citizens of southern neighbor origin
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