Word: florida
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Florida, Flo-rree-da," says Heberto Padilla, pronouncing the familiar word with a flourish, as if it were a lover's name. "Ponce de Leon christened it, and in Coral Gables the streets have Spanish names. So we deserve the place. Whenever we had trouble in Havana, we went to Miami, and Miami is very, very important for us. We don't feel like immigrants." Padilla certainly does not. Cuba's best and most famous poet now talks as if he could be the proud father of all his 726,000 countrymen residing in South Florida...
...Cuba, he believes, and when Castro dies the island will move away from its alien ideology. At that moment, Padilla predicts, thousands of exiles will return home and start new businesses with the money they have made in the U.S. But they will not forsake their new home in Florida: they will shuttle between the two countries as easily as if they were going from New York to Washington. Cuba will become half American, and the great irony, Padilla concludes, is that Castro, who tried to expunge the American image from the island, will only have succeeded in painting...
cities as Denver (19%) and Hartford, Conn. (20%). In South Florida, nearly a million Hispanics (78% Cuban) have spread so rapidly beyond Miami (64% Hispanic) that they sometimes refer to the entire 25-mile-or-so stretch from Miami to the Everglades as Calle Ocho (Eighth Street), after the main drag of Miami's Little Havana...
...many Anglos, Hispanic insularity seems to be, to put it bluntly, un- American. This feeling not infrequently is reinforced by straightforward, ugly racism. Neil Rogers, who conducts a talk show on Miami radio station WINZ, last December broadcast a prediction of continued heavy Cuban immigration into South Florida and invited his listeners to comment. "Shoot them before they land," suggested one caller. More often, Anglos simply avoid contact with Hispanics. Bob Lansing, who runs a collection agency in Beverly Hills, grew up in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles when it was predominantly Jewish. Now that...
...Filipinos, Vietnamese, Koreans, Indians, Chinese, Dominicans, Jamaicans. They scramble up across the border near San Ysidro, Calif., in the middle of the night. They get off their jets and stream through Customs at Kennedy. They arrive in the trunks of cars or wash up in foundering boats on the Florida Keys...