1984 34.7% 1,448,816 65.3% 2,730,350 Geology 1.1 Beginnings Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Miami. .
. 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", Global This diagram: viewtalkedit, While Barry University is primarily a liberal arts college the university has expanded its programs of study to include specialized programs in nursing teacher education medical technology and social work! Though spelled the same in English the Florida city's name has nothing to do with the Miami people who lived in a completely different part of North America. ! Further information: Miami-Dade Police Department There were 867,352 households out of which 30.61% had children under the age of 18 living with them 43.8% were married couples living together 18.79% had a female householder with no husband present and 30.49% were non-families 23.55% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.38% (2.52% male and 5.86% female) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older the average household size was 2.83 and the average family size was 3.33! 4.2 Tourism and conventions 2000 15,982,378 23.5% Miami prospered during the 1920s with an increase in population and infrastructure as northerners moved to the city the legacy of Jim Crow was embedded in these developments Miami's chief of police at the time H Leslie Quigg did not hide the fact that he like many other white Miami police officers was a member of the Ku Klux Klan Unsurprisingly these officers enforced social codes far beyond the written law Quigg for example "personally and publicly beat a colored bellboy to death for speaking directly to a white woman".:53. . Two catastrophic hurricanes in 1926 and 1928 caused Lake Okeechobee to breach its levees killing thousands of people the government began to focus on the control of floods rather than drainage the Okeechobee Flood Control District was created in 1929 financed by both state and federal funds President Herbert Hoover toured the towns affected by the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane and ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to assist the communities surrounding the lake Between 1930 and 1937 a dike 66 miles (106 km) long was built around the southern edge of the lake Control of the Hoover Dike and the waters of Lake Okeechobee were delegated to federal powers: the United States declared legal limits of the lake to between 14 and 17 feet (4.3 and 5.2 m) a massive canal was also constructed 80 feet (24 m) wide and 6 feet (1.8 m) deep through the Caloosahatchee River; whenever the lake rose too high the excess water left through the canal More than $20 million was spent on the entire project Sugarcane production soared after the dike and canal were built the populations of the small towns surrounding the lake jumped from 3,000 to 9,000 after World War II.
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