Located on the Gulf of Mexico adjacent to St. Petersburg,Tampa,a city of 277,000 people, is fairly well known for its large and established Cuban-American community and for being the nation's leading manufacturer of cigars. Tampa's Cuban community dates from Tong before Castro and is much older. than Miami's. Beyond the Cuban community in Ybor City,Tampa is as much a white working class city as there is in Florida.

Tampa, the trade center for Florida's west coast, is the seat of the MacDill Air Farce Base. Educational facilities include the University of South Florida, the University of Tampa, and a number of other four-year co-educational institutions.

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