909,104 people in Florida, including 425,814 U.S. citizens, lived with at least one undocumented family member between 2010 and 2014. The 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act (CAA) and the 1994 and 1995 U.S.-Cuba Migration Accords set the groundwork for what eventually became known as the wet-foot, dry-foot policy, which provided a pathway to legal permanent residency after one year of residence for Cubans who reached the United States via land, with or without a valid visa. Available online. Race and ethnicity (White alone 61.6%; Black alone 12.4%; Hispanic 18.7%; Asian alone 6%; American Indian and Alaska Native alone 1.1%; Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone 0.2%; Some Other Race alone 8.4%; Two or More Races 10.2%). Washington, DC: U.S. Census Bureau. Institute of International Education (IIE). Foner, Nancy. Diversity Index (61.1%, up from 54.9%). Duany, Jorge. vs. State Board of Education et al. The law states that 55,000 diversity visas in total are to be made available each fiscal year. Remittances sent to the Caribbean have grown steady since 1990 despite a small decline after the 2007-09 Great Recession. Voluntary, large-scale migration from the Caribbean to the United States began in the first half of the 20th century, following the end of the Spanish-American War, when a defeated Spain renounced its claims to Cuba and, among other acts, ceded Puerto Rico to the United States. Source: MPI tabulation of data from the U.S. Census Bureau 2019 ACS. Of note: Florida's Black immigrant population saw 81% growth from 2000 to 2019 with the addition of 350,000 people. Acosta, Yesenia and Patricia de la Cruz. Caribbean immigrants participate in the U.S. civilian labor force at the same rate as the overall foreign-born population and at a higher rate than the U.S. born. Approximately 15 percent of Caribbean immigrants were living in poverty (defined as earning less than $25,750 for a family of four in 2019), compared to 14 percent of the entire immigrant population and 12 percent of the U.S. born. [19], In 2008, the North Lauderdale City Commission passed a resolution calling for a new state of South Florida to be formed from Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties. More. Immigration Pathways of Caribbean Immigrants and All Immigrants in the United States, 2017. Migration Data in the Caribbean. [18], Over time, there have been numerous proposals for partitioning the state of Florida to form a separate state of South Florida. South Florida is the southernmost region of the U.S. state of Florida. West Indian Migration to New York: An Overview in Islands in the City: West Indian Migration to New York, 1-22. Approximately 21 percent of Caribbean adults had a bachelors degree or higher, versus 31 percent of all immigrant and 32 percent of native-born adults. Compared to the more diversified economy in North Florida, tourism is by far the most significant industry in South and Central Florida, with a much smaller but vibrant agricultural industry. These individuals represented 1 percent of the 699,350 DACA participants. A Miami accent has developed among persons born and/or raised in and around Miami-Dade County and a few other parts of South Florida. 202-266-1900, IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ABOUT THIS ARTICLE, CONTACT US AT, Pauline Endres de Oliveira and Nikolas Feith Tan, National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, Latin America & Caribbean Migration Portal, Illegal Immigration & Interior Enforcement. 2017. Some Haitian immigrants who have been in the United States since a massive 2010 earthquake devastated Haiti were granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to remain in the United States. The first wave of large-scale voluntary migration from the Caribbean to the United States began in the first half of the 20th century and consisted mostly of laborers, including guest workers from the British West Indies program who worked in U.S. agriculture in the mid-1940s, as well as political exiles from Cuba. Updated April 19, 2022. Age Distribution of the U.S. Population by Origin, 2017. While less than 10% of people in either North or Central Florida felt their area was liberal, over a third of South Floridians described their region as such. [2] Confusing the matter further, the University of South Florida, named in part because of its status as the state's southernmost public university at the time of its 1957 founding, is located in Tampa. That area includes the Miami metropolitan area (defined as Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties), the Florida Keys, and the interior region known as the Glades. Today, the range-wide population is estimated to be at least 13,000 manatees, with more than 6,500 in the southeastern United States and Puerto Rico. Figure 6. The foreign-born population includes naturalized citizens, lawful permanent residents, refugees and asylees, legal nonimmigrants (including those on student, work, or other temporary visas), and persons residing in the country without authorization. Approximately 22 percent of Caribbean adults had a bachelors degree or higher, versus 33 percent of foreign- and native-born adults. Individuals born in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, and several United Kingdom dependent territories in the Caribbean (Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Montserrat, and Turks and Caicos Islands) were not eligible for the 2023 lottery.Source:MPI tabulation of data from Department of Homeland Security (DHS),2020 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics(Washington, DC: DHS Office of Immigration Statistics, 2022),available online. Temporary Protected Status: Overview and Current Issue. Working Paper No. Available online. Miami-Dade County in Florida was home to 862,000 Caribbean immigrants, the highest among all U.S. counties, followed by much smaller numbers in Kings County (291,000) and Bronx County (277,000) in New York, and Broward County (265,000) in Florida. Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America, 2. Florida was home to 2.2 million women, 2 million men, and 247,316 children who were immigrants. Use our interactive maps, with the latest available data, to learn where immigrant populations, by country or region of birth, live in the United Statesat state, county, and metro levels. These policies led to large increases in the U.S. Cuban population. "Many are also engaged in predatory behavior in communities under their control contributing to rising levels of extortion, sexual violence, kidnapping and fatal violence," it said, citing an . The islands were mostly created by the disintegration of coral reefs and . Click herefor an interactive map that highlights the metropolitan areas with the highest concentrations of immigrants from the Caribbean and other countries. United Nations Population Division. Washington, DC: Pew Research Center. Copyright American Immigration Council. Select individual Caribbean countries from the dropdown menu. Available online. South Florida is the only region of the state where ethnic foods are as popular as general American cuisine. Caribbean Immigrants in the United States. The terms foreign born and immigrant are used interchangeably and refer to those who were born in another country and later migrated to the United States. Unlike Virginia Piedmont, Coastal Southern American, and Northeast American dialects, the "Miami accent" is rhotic; it also incorporates a rhythm and pronunciation heavily influenced by Spanish (wherein rhythm is syllable-timed). (Cubans intercepted at sea are returned to the island.) Ash rises from the La Soufriere volcano as it erupts April 13, 2021, on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Table 1. As of 2013-17, the U.S. cities with the largest number of Caribbean immigrants were the greater New York and Miami metropolitan areas. Even though Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced the termination of TPS for Haitians in July 2019, citing improved livelihood in Haiti, the decision was enjoined by a U.S. district court pending the outcome of the legal challenge. 2022. The state has attracted immigrants, particularly from Latin America. Health Coverage for Caribbean Immigrants, All Immigrants, and the Native Born, 2017. [13] Politically, South Florida is more liberal than the rest of the state. 202-266-1900. More than one-quarter of immigrants from Trinidad and Tobago (28 percent) and Jamaica (27 percent) held at least a bachelors degree, while nearly one-third (31 percent) from the Dominican Republic did not graduate from high school. Lauderhill has a high foreign-born population from the West Indies. DACA Population Data. Note: The 2018 figure represents World Bank estimates. Spanning a million square miles and dotted with more than 700 islands, the Caribbean Sea was one of the last places colonized by Native Americans as they explored and settled North and South America. Top Concentrations of Caribbean Immigrants by Metropolitan Area, 2015-19. Francis, Tamra-Kay. Available online. Jie Zong is a consultant and former Associate Policy Analyst at MPI. Civilian Labor Force (ages 16 and older) by Occupation and Origin, 2019. Box 451992. [20][19], In 2014, the City of South Miami passed a resolution in favor of splitting the state in half, with a northern boundary drawn to include the counties of Brevard, Orange, Polk, Hillsborough, and Pinellas (roughly the Tampa Bay and Orlando areas). [7] The White population continues to remain the largest racial category as Hispanics in Florida primarily identify as White (81.9%) with others identifying as Some Other Race (11.3%), Multiracial (3.4%), Black (2.8%), American Indian and Alaskan Native (0.3%), Asian (0.1%), and Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (0.1%). Florida has long been home to a large number of immigrants, many of whom hail from the Caribbean. The Dominican Republic received more than half (54 percent) of all remittances sent to the Caribbean, followed by Jamaica (21 percent) and Haiti (20 percent). For the metropolitan area made up by the population centers of Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties, see, Geographic and cultural region in Florida, United States, A list of cities under 10,000 is available. According to the most recent data available from U.S. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service. One in five residents in the state was born in another country. As part of the efforts to normalize U.S.-Cuba diplomatic relationships, President Obama ended the dry-foot part of the policy in early 2017. South Florida is politically diverse, with multiple congressional districts in the region supporting both the Democratic and Republican parties. Such proposals have usually been made as political statement rather than serious attempts at secession. Not shown are the populations in Alaska and Hawaii, which are small in size; for details, visit the MPI Data Hub to view an interactive map showing geographic distribution of immigrants by state and county, available online.Source: MPI tabulation of data from U.S. Census Bureau pooled 201317 ACS. [14][15] The economy in South Florida is very similar to that in Central Florida. While the term most commonly refers to the Keys and Greater Miami, interpretations vary on the inclusion of some other parts of Florida within the South Florida region, most commonly the southern parts of the Tampa Bay area, the inclusion of Southwest Florida and its cities, and the Treasure Coast. Want to learn more about immigrants to the United States from Mexico, India, Canada, or many other countries? 2022. (Note: no remittances data are available for Cuba and the Bahamas). World Bank Prospects Group. Florida is home to more than 24,000 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients. FL has the 2nd and 3rd largest Caribbean population in the United States. Want to learn more about immigrants to the United States from Mexico, India, Canada, or many other countries? The Caribbean is the most common region of birth for the 4.5 million Black immigrants in the United States, accounting for 46 percent of the total. Roman Catholics make up the single largest denomination in the state. As of 2010[update], 73.36% of Florida residents age 5 and older spoke English at home as a primary language, while 19.54% spoke Spanish, 1.84% French Creole (mostly Haitian Creole), 0.60% French and 0.50% Portuguese. Gibson, Campbell J. and Emily Lennon. Between 1980 and 2000, the Caribbean immigrant population increased by more than 50 percent every ten years (54 percent and 52 percent, respectively) to reach 2.9 million in 2000. United Nations Population Division. Accessed from Steven Ruggles, Katie Genadek, Ronald Goeken, Josiah Grover, and Matthew Sobek. According to August 2018 data from U.S. 1275 K St. NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20005 | ph. This provision was adopted in 1988 by a vote following an Initiative Petition. Migration Information Source, July 6, 2017. Note: Socioeconomic characteristics (based on ACS data) are available only for immigrants from the Caribbean overall and those from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago due to sample size considerations. Top Metropolitan Areas of Residence for Caribbean Immigrants in the United States, 2013-17. They are occasionally being encountered . Click here for a map showing state and counties where unauthorized immigrants from select countries of origin reside in the United States. Figure 9. In total, the proposed State of South Florida would have included 24 counties.[21][22][23]. According to the 2018 US Census Bureau estimates, Florida's population was 74.7% White (53.3% Non-Hispanic White), 16.0% Black or African American, 2.8% Asian, 0.3% Native American and Alaskan Native, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 3.3% Some Other Race, and 2.9% from two or more races. South Florida is the eighth largest metropolis in the United States and is growing; it has more than 6 million residents and comprises nearly one-third of Florida's total population. Annual Remittance Flows to Caribbean, 1970-2018. That growth is larger than the entire 2019 Black immigrant populations of Colorado, Arizona, Washington, Nevada, Indiana and Ohio combined. Available online. Caribbean Population of South Florida Christine L. Bokman1, Louis R. Pasquale2,3, Richard K. Parrish II1, Richard K. Lee1* 1. About 10 percent (72,900) of the 707,400 immigrants who became lawful permanent residents (LPRs) in 2020 were from the Caribbean; about 80 percent of them received a green card as immediate relatives of U.S. citizens or through family-sponsored preferences. Caribbean immigrants were slightly more likely to be proficient in English than the overall foreign-born population. In total, 26.64% of Florida's population age 5 and older spoke a mother language other than English. Interested in the top immigrant populations in your state or metro area? The accent was born in central Miami, but has expanded to the rest of South Florida in the decades since the 1960s. About 22 percent of Caribbean immigrants had not finished high school, compared to 26 percent of all immigrants and 8 percent of U.S.-born adults as of 2019. Much smaller numbers reside in Broward County in Florida and Bronx, Kings, and Queens counties in New York. 2014 Dec 30;9(12 . In 2018, 2.7 million people in Florida (13 percent of the states population) were native-born Americans who had at least one immigrant parent. According to the 2010 census, the racial distributions are as follows; 53.5% Non-Hispanic White, 25.6% of the population are Hispanic Americans or Latino (of any race), 15.2% African American (includes Afro-Caribbeans), 4.5% Native American, 2.0% Asian and others Florida has one of the largest African-American populations in the country, and has the second-highest Latino population on the East Coast outside of New York state. In fact there are legally named communities in South Florida such as Little Haiti (majority Haitian) and Little Havana (majority Cuban). Tamir, Christine and Monica Anderson. During the same period, about 7 percent of children in the state were U.S. citizens living with at least one undocumented family member (280,133 children in total). U.S. Census Bureau. Individuals from Jamaica (2,020 participants), the Dominican Republic (1,780), and Trinidad and Tobago (1,340) were the largest Caribbean groups participating in DACA. South Florida is a gateway to Latin America and the Caribbean, and demographics reflect this: 44% of residents are Hispanic, 32% are white, and 21% are black (2). Click on the bullet points below for more information: In the 201317 period, the majority of immigrants from the Caribbean lived in Florida (41 percent) or New York (26 percent). Check out our maps. They live in coastal areas throughout the Caribbean, and occur at the northern end of their range in south Florida. [1] Latinos in Florida accounted for 5.3 million (8 percent) of the US Latino population. Most immigrants from the Dominican Republic (78 percent), Trinidad and Tobago (77 percent), and Jamaica and Haiti (76 percent each) were of working age, while more than one-quarter (27 percent) of Cuban immigrants were seniors (ages 65 and older). The level of dependence on remittances varies significantly by country: Remittances accounted for 22 percent of Haitis gross domestic product (GDP) and 21 percent of Jamaicas, 11 percent of the Dominican Republics, and about 1 percent each in Aruba and Trinidad and Tobago. The law states that 55,000 diversity visas in total are to be made available each fiscal year. Click here for an interactive chart showing changes in the number of immigrants from the Caribbean in the United States over time. They live in brackish or saltwater areas, and can be found in ponds, coves, and creeks in mangrove swamps. Select individual Caribbean countries from the dropdown menu. The designation was continuously extended until November 2017, when the Trump administration, citing improved conditions in Haiti, announced the termination of the status. Figure 4. More than 90 percent of Caribbean immigrants came from five countries: Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Haiti, and Trinidad and Tobago (see Table 1). Caribbean immigrants are generally older than both the foreign- and U.S.-born populations. Meanwhile, Caribbean immigrants were much less likely to become green-card holders via employment pathways (2 percent) than all new LPRs (21 percent). 2006. According to the 2020 census, the racial distributions are as follows; 51.5% Non-Hispanic White, 26.6% of the population are Hispanics or Latino (of any race), 14.5% African American, 4% Native American, and 2.3% Asian, Oriental and other. Diversity Visa lottery: The Immigration Act of 1990 established the Diversity Visa lottery program to allow entry to immigrants from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. While the Caribbean immigrant population tripled in size between 1980 and 2010, its growth rate had declined by 2019 (see Figure 1). Immigrants accounted for: 57 percent of business owners in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Miami Beach metro area. More one-quarter (29 percent) of adult immigrants had a college degree or more education in 2018, while one-fifth (20 percent) had less than a high school diploma. Available online. If treated as a separate category, Hispanics are the largest minority group in Florida.[7]. Together, these counties account for about 41 percent of the Caribbean immigrant population in the United States. "Charting the Course" uses "the term 'Southeast' Florida interchangeably with 'South' Florida" for this region; p. 3. The foreign-born population includes naturalized citizens, lawful permanent residents, refugees and asylees, legal nonimmigrants (including those on student, work, or other temporary visas), and persons residing in the country without authorization. 29 percent in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater. Top States of Residence for Caribbean Immigrants in the United States, 2013-17. Motto: "Out of Many, One People" Total Population: Approximately 2.5 million Currency: Jamaican Dollar (US$1 equivalent to approximately J$101) Area Code: 876 Weather: Tropical Jamaica is the third largest of the Caribbean islands, and the largest English-speaking island in the Caribbean Sea. Today there are more than 6,300 in Florida, representing a significant increase over the past 25 years. N.d. International Migrant Stock by Destination and Origin. Updated August 27, 2021. 2011. Visit the MPI Data Hub collection of interactive remittances tools, Dominican Immigrants in the United States, Rebuilding Self and Country: Deportee Reintegration in Jamaica, Cuban Migration: A Postrevolution Exodus Ebbs and Flows, United States Abandons its Harder Line on Haitian Migrants in the Face of Latest Natural Disaster, Normalization of Relations with Cuba May Portend Changes to U.S. Immigration Policy, Select Diaspora Populations in the United States, A Demographic Profile of Black Caribbean Immigrants in the United States. Note:Limited English proficiency refers to those who indicated on the ACS questionnaire that they spoke English less than very well.. The developed area is highly urbanized and increasingly continuous and decentralized, with no particular dominant core cities. This first glaucoma survey in a U.S. Haitian Afro-Caribbean population indicates glaucoma suspect status is high across all age groups, and suggests glaucoma monitoring in people less than 40 years of age is indicated in this population. Miami-Dade County in Florida was home to 862,000 Caribbean immigrants, the highest among all U.S. counties, followed by much smaller numbers in Kings County (291,000) and Bronx County (277,000) in New York, and Broward County (265,000) in Florida. More than half (54 percent) of Caribbean immigrants arrived prior to 2000, followed by 24 percent between 2000 and 2009, and 22 percent in 2010 or later (see Figure 6). Coral Reef Symp. Available online. [7] By ethnicity, 26.1% of the total population is Hispanic-Latino (of any race) and 73.9% is Non-Hispanic (of any race). The greater New York and Miami metropolitan areas were the U.S. cities with the most Caribbean immigrants. There are . Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau (the 2019 American Community Survey [ACS], as well as pooled 2015-19 ACS data), the Department of Homeland SecuritysYearbook of Immigration Statistics, and World Bank annual remittances data, this Spotlight provides information on the Caribbean immigrant population in the United States, focusing on its size, geographic distribution, and socioeconomic characteristics. Jamaica (2,800), the Bahamas (2,200), and the Dominican Republic (1,500) were the top three origin countries. Copyright 2001-2023 Migration Policy Institute. 202-266-1940 | fax. . Caribbean Immigrants and All Immigrants in the United States by Period of Arrival, 2019. Jeanne Batalova is a Senior Policy Analyst and Manager of the Migration Data Hub. U.S. Approximately 60 percent of all Caribbean immigrants in the United States lived in these two metro areas. Available online. 2019 American Community Survey. International Organization for Migration (IOM) Global Migration Data Analysis Center (GMDAC) Migration Data Portal. Note: Limited English proficiency refers to those who indicated on the ACS questionnaire that they spoke English less than very well.. Country was significantly less popular in South Florida than in North or Central Florida, while Latin was more popular than in the other regions. In 2017, approximately 4.4 million Caribbean immigrants resided in the United States, accounting for 10 percent of the nations 44.5 million immigrants. Immigrants from Trinidad and Tobago were most likely to be employed in management, business, science, and arts occupations (37 percent); while those from Haiti (38 percent) and the Dominican Republic (34 percent) were the mostly like to be in service occupations. TPS provides protection from removal and work authorization to foreign nationals from certain designated countries experiencing ongoing armed conflict, natural disaster, or other extraordinary conditions. The U.S. Policy Beat in MPI's Online Journal. Note: Numbers may not add up to 100 as they are rounded to the nearest whole number.Source: MPI tabulation of data from the U.S. Census Bureau 2019 ACS. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Available online. The level of dependence on remittances varies significantly by country: remittances accounted for more than one-quarter (27 percent) of Haitis GDP, while the share was much lower in Trinidad and Tobago (0.6 percent) and Grenada (0.1 percent). National ethnic communities in the state include Cubans, who migrated en masse following the revolution in the mid 20th century. 202-266-1900, IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ABOUT THIS ARTICLE, CONTACT US AT, Pauline Endres de Oliveira and Nikolas Feith Tan, National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, Latin America & Caribbean Migration Portal, Illegal Immigration & Interior Enforcement. Note: Pooled 201317 ACS data were used to get statistically valid estimates at the metropolitan statistical-area level for smaller-population geographies. After World War II, U.S. companies heavily recruited thousands of English-speaking W2 contract workers from the Bahamas, Jamaica, and Barbados to fill critical jobs in health care and agriculture. Table 1. Top Concentrations of Caribbean Immigrants by Metropolitan Area, 2013-17. Figure 2. Distribution of Caribbean Immigrants by Country of Origin, 2017. Source:MPI tabulation of data from the U.S. Census Bureau pooled 2015-19 ACS. km, The Bahamas (all coral in origin) occupies larger part of Lucayan Archipelago and comprises a group of nearly 700 (atolls) ring-like coral islands, and (cays) small, low islands composed largely of coral or sand. Accessed February 1, 2019. A 2007 study of Florida's regions by Ary Lamme and Raymond K. Oldakowski found that Floridians surveyed identified "South Florida" as comprising the southernmost sections of peninsular Florida, meaning from Jupiter, Florida, southward. Compared to the total foreign-born population, Caribbean immigrants are less likely to be Limited English Proficient (LEP), have lower educational attainment and income, and have higher poverty rates. A. Annual Remittance Flows to Caribbean Countries, 1980-2020. Cubans intercepted at sea were returned to the island. Together, these five counties accounted for 43 percent of the total Caribbean immigrant population in the United States. Caribbean-American Nationals in South Florida make up at least 50% of the 940,000+ Blacks or African Americans. Dominicans were the most likely to be in poverty (22 percent). In 2018, 4.5 million immigrants (foreign-born individuals) comprised 21 percent of the population. Marchers at Dominican Day Parade in New York City. Immigrant Share (%) (of all industry workers), Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing, and Hunting, Other Services (except Public Administration). Seventy-one percent of those from Trinidad and Tobago entered before 2000, compared to 53 percent of the total Caribbean immigrant population. Immediate relatives of U.S. citizens: Includes spouses, minor children, and parents of U.S. citizens. Note: Pooled 201317 ACS data were used to get statistically valid estimates at the state level for smaller-population geographies. Caribbean Immigrants and All Immigrants in the United States by Period of Arrival, 2017. Gibson, Campbell J. and Emily Lennon. Haitians have not had access to similarly favorable treatment, though some Haitians living in the United States without authorization have been granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Administrative & Support; Waste Management; and Remediation Services. PATRICE Roberts is certainly doing her part to put soca music on the map as the artiste performed during half-time in an NBA game between Toronto Raptors and New Orleans Pelicans at the . Orlando, Florida Population 2023 CSV JSON Orlando Metro Area Population by Year Population by Race Hispanic NonHispanic CSV JSON White Black or African American Caribbean immigrants are more likely to be employed in service occupations and production, transportation, and material moving occupations than the other two groups of workers (see Figure 5). With the notable exception of Jamaica, all major Caribbean nations were under direct U.S. political control at some point, which has created incentives and opportunities for the nationals of these islands to migrate to the United States. This article uses the U.S. Census Bureaus definition of the Caribbean region, whichincludes Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, the former country of Guadeloupe (including St. Barthlemy and Saint-Martin), Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, the former country of the Netherlands Antilles (including Bonaire, Curaao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten), St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and Turks and Caicos Islands. South Florida is the southernmost part of the continental United States and the only region of the continental U.S. that includes some areas with a tropical climate. [9][10][11], The Miami accent is based on a fairly standard American accent but with some changes very similar to dialects in the Mid-Atlantic (especially the New York area dialect, Northern New Jersey English, and New York Latino English.)

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