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Anybody who says anything other than Miami is clearly out of there mind.
And that map is just a small sample how connected Miami is to the rest of Latin America.
"Connected" as in separated by ocean. That's certainly a more relevant geographic context than sharing a border with the largest Spanish speaking nation in the world.
Quite a few of the South Americans in New York City are from the nation of Guyana, though. While Guyana is part of South America, it isn't a Spanish or Portuguese-speaking nation, and isn't considered "hispanic" by the common definitions of that term. Similarly, people from Trinidad sometimes get added to the city's "South American" total.
guyana and trinidad are part of nyc,s caribbean community so they dont count. And also the east indian background people who come from these 2 countries do not claim hispanic or black. Th eblack people in these nations consider themselves black, from the caribbean, and represent the caribbean.
a lot of black people from guyana are usually in denial that guyana is a south american country because they focus on culture more then anything.
Miami is the capital of Hispanic U.S. All the major television networks - Univision, Telemundo - are based there. Unlike LA, Miami's skyline looks very Latin America-ish.
Fair enough. Where on SI do you live? I'm frequently along Castleton and the Port Richmond area, and it actually shocked me how that part of SI actually has a decent Black/Latino population, despite the fact perceptions of SI are basically of an Italian outpost.
You're right in that many of the "Hispanic" neighborhoods aren't seen as such primarily yet, but those things take a bit of time to change. It's really only been in the last 30 years that many of these neighborhoods have begun to shift primarily into a Hispanic character.
It may shock most people here but The Bronx is actually majority Hispanic, even though outside of NYC its known as being primarily African American. There is no county in the LA area that is majority Hispanic, though one could cut one out. Considering that the Bronx is nowhere NEAR Latin America, that is mightly impressive.
And unlike LA and even Miami to an extent, there really is not a primary Latin nationality. Puerto Ricans make up a plurality, but there is also a large Dominican population, along with a growing Mexican and Central American presence.
How this compares to Miami, it most likely doesn't because the mindset there is really shifted toward Latin America, but in terms of the United States, NYC does come close or even surpasses Los Angeles at this point in time IMO.
um no outside of the bronx people are very clear of its hispanic dominiance. The only issue is people think its mainly puerto rican mixed with black but i think now people are now knowing the bronx has a lot of dominicans as well.
when i was young my mother always characterized the bronx as spanish even thought we barely ever almost never went up their. My mom knows nothing of the bronx except for the stuff that happen their.
"Connected" as in separated by ocean. That's certainly a more relevant geographic context than sharing a border with the largest Spanish speaking nation in the world.
The numbers speak for themselves. Miami is connected even though it's separated by water. And it's closer to other Latin-American countries other than Mexico.
Miami is the capital of Hispanic U.S. All the major television networks - Univision, Telemundo - are based there. Unlike LA, Miami's skyline looks very Latin America-ish.
Very true no one comes near Mexico city as capital of Latin america, as for the Hispanic capital of the us I would go with Los Angeles, Univision started out in LA and also a couple major hispanic television networks are headquartered in LA such as Azteca America, and estrellla tv, and Univision is currently headquartered in new york city.
I just thought I'd throw this report out there if it hasn't already been mentioned....
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