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Davie 91,992 75,720 Broward (18.6) 59.5 Miami Florida Business directory 2000s: a new era Politically speaking the region is heavily Democratic Broward County is the second most reliably Democratic county in the state behind only Gadsden County Palm Beach County like Broward is largely Democratic as well especially amongst its Jewish community while the rest of Florida tends to follow Southern politics and vote more Republican with the exception of certain parts of Florida where Southern culture is not as influential With a majority Hispanic population in Miami-Dade Republican votes are mainly by older generations of Cuban Americans most of whom had fled to the United States to escape the Communist reign of Fidel Castro but Miami-Dade County still remains very Democratic when compared with most of Florida's other counties in the 2016 presidential election 62.3% of voters in the Miami metropolitan area voted Democratic This was the 6th highest of any metro area in the United States. . The Miami River lent its name to the burgeoning town extending an etymology that derives from the Mayaimi Indian tribe.[citation needed] in 1844 Miami became the county seat and six years later a census reported that there were ninety-six residents living in the area the Third Seminole War lasted from 1855 to 1858 but was not nearly as destructive as the previous one However it did slow down the rate of settlement of southeast Florida At the end of the war a few of the soldiers stayed and some of the Seminoles remained in the Everglades. 2.3.1 First Cuban wave, Legend Toll Florida 874.svg State Road 874 (Don Shula Expressway), Main article: List of invasive species in the Everglades. Law School (day) Young Women's Preparatory School all-girls, 5.1 Entertainment and performing arts 12 Sports Terrorism The Florida panther is close to extinction a record 23 were killed in 2009 mainly by automobile collisions leaving about 100 individuals in the wild the Center for Biological Diversity and others have therefore called for a special protected area for the panther to be established Manatees are also dying at a rate higher than their reproduction American flamingos are rare to see in Florida due to being hunted in the 1900s where it was to a point considered completely extirpated Now the flamingos are reproducing toward making a comeback to South Florida since it is adamantly considered native to the state and also are now being protected.
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