Why Are Most Miami Cubans White?

Описание: If you’ve ever been to Miami, you may have noticed something that doesn’t fit the usual American idea of what “Latino” looks like.

Many Cubans there appear unmistakably European. Pale skin. Spanish surnames. Features you might expect in southern Europe rather than the Caribbean.

That surprises a lot of people. Most Latinos in the United States are mestizo, shaped by centuries of mixing between Indigenous peoples and Europeans. So when Americans see large numbers of visibly white Cubans in Miami, it feels like an exception.

But Miami didn’t create white Cubans.

Cuba already had them.

In this video, I explain why pre Castro Cuba had one of the largest white populations in Latin America and how history filtered that population into Miami after the revolution under Fidel Castro.

Cuba followed a completely different demographic path than places like Mexico or Peru. The island lost most of its Indigenous population very early. Later, while much of Latin America had already closed the door to European migration, Cuba kept receiving massive waves of Spaniards well into the late 1800s and early 1900s.

These were not elites.

They were dock workers, farmers, shopkeepers, mechanics, and laborers arriving from Asturias, Galicia, the Canary Islands, Catalonia, and the Balearics. Entire families crossed the Atlantic. Neighborhoods formed. Accents transferred. Businesses opened.

By the mid twentieth century, roughly sixty to seventy percent of Cuba identified as white by Latin American standards.

Then the revolution happened.

The first people to leave were urban professionals and property holders, groups that heavily overlapped with recent European descended families. Over one million Cubans emigrated in the early decades alone.

Modern Cuba became darker not because something new was added, but because something enormous was removed.

Miami preserved that earlier slice.

This video breaks down how late Spanish migration, early Indigenous collapse, African continuity, and post revolution emigration reshaped Cuban demographics and why Cuban identity developed differently from most of Latin America.

This isn’t ideology.

It’s population history.

If you’re interested in geopolitics, migration, ethnicity, and how historical timelines quietly shape modern societies, this video is for you.

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