Statistics
- Over 540,000 Mexicans were in Florida in 2005, and represented about 16% of all Florida Latinos (Bergad 71-72)
- Of the 16% Mexicans in Florida in 2005, about 53% were foreign-born. (Bergad 71-72)
- Florida ranked 6th among the states in terms of Hispanics as a percentage of overall populations at 20%(Bergad 72)
- In 2005, in Miami-Dade County, Florida, 61% of all people were of Hispanic origin” (Bergad 79)
- In 1980, about 26% of the Miami population was Hispanic and 70% of all Miami Latinos was of Cuban descendant. "Another 8% of the total Latino population was Puerto Rican" (Bergad 89)
- "From about 580,000 in 1980 Miami’s Hispanics increased to over 2 million by 2005 and 38% of the total population." (Bergad 89)
- In Florida as a whole in 1990, the Cuban population "had declined to 56% and to 42% in 2005. Puerto Ricans were the second largest national Hispanic subgroup in 2005 at 10%” (Bergad 89)
- “In Miami, Cubans declined from 73% to 56% of all Latino household heads between 1980 and 2005 as Miami’s Latino population became more diversified because of the arrival of migrants from other Latin America and Caribbean regions" (Bergad 142-143)
- In 2005 "Cubans, Dominicans (4%) and Puerto Ricans (6%) headed about two-thirds of all Miami’s Latino households. Colombians (7%) and Nicaraguans (6%) were the other two largest Latino household heads” (Bergad 142-143)
- “Income distribution patterns among Cuban-headed households in Miami were somewhat different from those found among Mexicans in the five metro areas [of Los Angeles, Riverside, New York, Chicago, and Houston]...There was absolutely no change in the percentage of poorer Cuban households as
- Exactly "28% of [Cuban-headed] household heads earned less than $20,000 in 1980, 1990, 2000, and 2005" (Bergad 186)
- Both in 1980 and 2005, "the poverty rate was 15% of Miami’s total Cuban population. However, Cuban-headed households earning more than $75,000 increased steadily from 14% to 24% of all Cuban households from 1980 to 2005. Income concentration also accrued to these wealthier Cuban households who controlled 35% of total Cuban income in 1980 and 59% in 2005” (Bergad 186)
- “In the Miami metropolitan area, Cubans accounted for the vast majority of the Latino electorate in 1980, 70% of all eligible Latino voters, but this declined thereafter and stood at 61% in 2005" (Bergad 262)
- "Puerto Ricans also experienced a drop in their relative share of the Miami Latino citizen voting-age population from 14% in 1980 to 9% in 2005” (Bergad 262)
