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2.2 Miami Campus Tuition 7.2 Water quality Coral Gables Miami is split roughly into north south west and Downtown areas the heart of the city is Downtown Miami which is on the eastern side and includes the neighborhoods of Brickell Virginia Key Watson Island as well as PortMiami Downtown Miami is Florida's largest and most influential central business district with many major banks courthouses financial headquarters cultural and tourist attractions schools parks and a large residential population Brickell Avenue has the largest concentration of international banks in the United States Just northwest of Downtown is the Health District which is Miami's center for hospitals research institutes and biotechnology with hospitals such as Jackson Memorial Hospital and the University of Miami's Leonard M Miller School of Medicine! In 2010 6.9% of the population (1,269,765) considered themselves to be of only American ancestry (regardless of race or ethnicity) Many of these were of English or Scotch-Irish descent; however their families have lived in the state for so long that they choose to identify as having "American" ancestry or do not know their ancestry in the 1980 United States census the largest ancestry group reported in Florida was English with 2,232,514 Floridians claiming that they were of English or mostly English American ancestry Some of their ancestry went back to the original thirteen colonies. The struggle for a "colored-only" beach in Miami signified the incipient civil rights revolution of the 1950s -1960s it was fueled by the anger of patriotic black servicemen who fought the racism of Nazi Germany only to return to a segregated America Among the protesters was Attorney Lawson B Thomas who would later become the first Black appointed to Judge in the post-Reconstruction South Lawyer Thomas remained on the beach holding bail money for those who anticipated arrest the NAACP had notified the local press and police of the time and place hoping for arrests that would be central to a court challenge of local discrimination laws and policies on instruction from local government representatives police refused to cite the protestors telling Thomas to contact County Commissioner Charles H Crandon. ; The metropolitan areas of Miami Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach are located on a rise in elevation along the eastern coast of Florida called the Eastern Coastal Ridge that was formed as waves compressed ooids into a single formation Along the western border of the Big Cypress Swamp is the Immokolee Ridge (or Immokolee Rise) a slight rise of compressed sand that divides the runoff between the Caloosahatchee River and the Big Cypress This slight rise in elevation on both sides of the Everglades creates a basin and forces water that overflows Lake Okeechobee to creep toward the southwest Under both the Miami Limestone formation and the Fort Thompson limestone lies the Biscayne Aquifer a surface aquifer that serves as the Miami metropolitan area's fresh water source Rainfall and stored water in the Everglades replenish the Biscayne Aquifer directly. Political risk View from one of the higher points in Miami west of downtown the highest natural point in the city of Miami is in Coconut Grove near the bay along the Miami Rock Ridge at 24 feet (7.3 m) above sea level. Citrus canker continues to be an issue of concern From 1997 to 2013 the growing of citrus trees has declined 25% from 600,000 acres (240,000 ha) to 450,000 acres (180,000 ha) Citrus greening disease is incurable a study states that it has caused the loss of $4.5 billion between 2006 and 2012 as of 2014 it was the major agricultural concern.

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