canecrazy23
CIS GIF Champion 2021
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Preach brother. Facts will set them free.Look at the City of Miami demographic change since 1990. The population has INCREASED by 800,000, and of those 800,000 I doubt there are no more than 10,000 "gringos" who moved to Miami from other parts of the country and have interest in college football. 99.9% of the population increase has been from Latin America (Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Panama, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Mexico) where people have either opened offices in Miami due to their Agricultural Export activities in their native countries, or they have export offices based in Miami serving Latin America. I worked in Latin American agriculture for over 40 years ... 30 of those years were based in Miami and we either had farms or worked with growers in those Latin American countries I referenced.
Miami's economy is an Ag Import driven economy. The port of Miami and Miami International Airport have some of the most agile and importer friendly programs and procedures ... to expedite the import process ... as perishable commodity import from Latin America is the key product handled. As the ag imports have grown, so have the PRODUCTION bases in each Latin American country, and those growers, wealthy and well established in their own countries, have opened offices and established 2nd or 3rd homes in Miami. Miami has been, very accurately, referred to as "The Capital of Latin America". It is no longer the sleep retirement community of the 1960's. Nor is it the "Cuban dominated" city of the 80's and 90's. The growth has been phenomenal and you see it in the home prices (people buy $1 million dollar homes as tear downs in Coral Gables and Pinecrest), the cars on the road (Porsches, Range Rovers and even Bentleys are as common in Miami as F150 pick up trucks are in Central Florida), and the plethora of ethnic cuisine dining options. There are more Peruvian restaurants in Miami than there are BBQ restaurants in Daytona Beach and Volusia County. I lived in Coral Gables for 30 years ... I wore my UM polo to work on Thursdays when UM had a night game ... nobody in my office had any clue as to what it was. And today it is more heavily Latino (first generation immigrant).
I've seen it happen first hand growing up down here and I was born here in 72.