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Florida - A region unto itself, Florida is mostly defined by an Anglo-Latin-Caribbean heritage, with notable historic Black and Native populations (such as the Seminoles), and accompanying racial mixes. The Dominickers are one such population, a tri-racial isolate group that influenced the heritage of some localities in the state. More broadly, bi-racial mixes are relatively common, both White/Black and White/Native. There is significant crossover between the White and Latin American populations of the state - many White Floridians have notable Latin American ancestry from regions as diverse as Cuba (which has a particularly long history of immigration to the state), Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, other Caribbean states, and parts of Central and South America (the state is known for relatively large populations of mixed White Brazilians, Colombians, Venezuelans, Panamanians/Zonians, and Argentines). The core White Floridian population is mostly defined by more constant, stable heritages in the rural north, to more cosmopolitan, fluctuating heritages in the South and most urban areas of the state. The Spanish ancestral population has a distant but broad and significant impact on the ethnic heritage of many White Floridians (the Floridano population highlights this more specifically). Spanish sub-heritages, like Canarian, Asturian, Catalan, Galician, and Basque, are long-standing and relatively common in the state. The state is then defined by a prominent German element, as well as a typical Scottish and Irish “Florida Cracker” ethnic strain, with roughly equivalent populations of English and Italian peoples. Polish and French round up the major European heritages of the state, with Austrian, Dutch, and Swiss elements completing the typical “Atlantic American” cultural background. Other European heritages complement this landscape, with notable populations of Greeks and Greek Cypriots, Russians, Ukrainians, Jews, Romanians, and other Slavic and Baltic peoples, Czechs, Slovaks and Slovenes, notable Scandinavian heritage of varying recency, an old Portuguese population, and a “Yugoslavic” strain, with notable Croatian, Albanian Arbereshe, Serbian, and Macedonian groups. There is an Arab element of the white population in some South and Central Florida cities, with minor, old Syrian and Lebanese strains, in addition to more recent Arab populations