Editing Union City, New Jersey (section)

===The Latino and Hispanic community===
[[File:6.6.10CubanParadeUCByLuigiNovi5.jpg|thumb|left|Revelers during the 2010 Cuban Day Parade on [[Bergenline Avenue]]]]
Immigration from Cuba to Union City began slowly in the late 1940s and early 1950s, when jobs in the local embroidery and textile factories were abundant.<ref name=USForeignService>Patterson, Mary Jo. [https://publications.america.gov/publication/union-city-new-jersey-cuban-americans/#axzz43pyACW2b "Cuban Americans, Union City, New Jersey"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829073629/https://publications.america.gov/publication/union-city-new-jersey-cuban-americans/#axzz43pyACW2b |date=August 29, 2017 }}, [[United States Foreign Service]]. Accessed August 28, 2017.</ref> By 1955, the city's Cuban population was large enough that [[Fidel Castro]] visited Union City to raise money for his revolt against Cuban dictator [[Fulgencio Batista]], though a speech he gave one night at a bar on 26th Street, Le Molino Rojo ("The Red Mill") led to a brawl that resulted in Castro's arrest.<ref name=NYTimes3.22.16>[[Jim Dwyer (journalist)|Dwyer, Jim]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/23/nyregion/in-a-cuban-enclave-in-new-jersey-mixed-feelings-about-reconciliation.html?smid=fb-share "In a Cuban Enclave in New Jersey, Skeptics View a Moment With Open Minds"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', March 22, 2016. Accessed December 15, 2016.</ref><ref>Torres, Agustin C. [http://www.nj.com/hudson/voices/index.ssf/2010/02/political_insider_the_chief_wh.html "Political Insider: The chief who cracked down on Castro"], ''[[The Jersey Journal]]'', February 20, 2010. Accessed July 6, 2017.</ref><ref>Worth, Richard. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZD83heAmGzAC&pg=PA38 ''Hispanic America: 1950s to 1960s'']. Cavendish Square Publishing. p. 38. Archived at Google Books. Accessed March 24, 2016.</ref>

Following the [[Cuban Revolution]] of 1959, large numbers of Cubans in professional occupations emigrated to Union City,<ref name=USForeignService/> resulting in Union City's status as the nation's second-largest Cuban population, behind [[Miami, Florida]], leading to the nickname "Little [[Havana on the Hudson]]".<ref name=NewYorkSun/><ref name=HR20070625>Rosero, Jessica. [https://archive.hudsonreporter.com/2006/09/05/most-liquor-licenses-bumpiest-town-local-municipalities-hold-unusual-distinctions/ "Most liquor licenses? Bumpiest town? Local municipalities hold unusual distinctions"], ''[[The Hudson Reporter]]'', September 5, 2006. Accessed November 14, 2019. "At one time, Union City had its own claim to fame as being the second largest Cuban community in the nation, after Miami. During the wave of immigrant exiles of the 1960s, the Cuban population that did not settle in Miami's Little Havana found its way to the north in Union City. However, throughout the years, the growing Cuban community has spread out to other regions of North Hudson."</ref><ref name=NYTimes2.21.08/> Aspects of the enclave are explored in the 2009 publication ''The Cubans of Union City: Immigrants and Exiles in a New Jersey Community''.<ref name=Prieto>[http://www.temple.edu/tempress/chapters_1400/1519_ch1.pdf ''The Cubans of Union City: Immigrants and Exiles in a New Jersey Community''], [[Temple University]]. Accessed August 28, 2017.</ref>

In the ensuing decades, Cuban residents spread out to other communities of [[North Hudson, New Jersey|North Hudson County]]. [[West New York, New Jersey|West New York]], at 19.64%, now has the highest percentage of Cubans in New Jersey, with Union City in second place, with 15.35%. These two municipalities have the highest Cuban population percentage in the United States outside of [[Florida]].<ref>[http://www.epodunk.com/ancestry/Cuban.html "Cuban Ancestry"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121122040230/http://www.epodunk.com/ancestry/Cuban.html |date=November 22, 2012 }}. [[EPodunk]]. Accessed June 16, 2006.</ref> Moreover, Union City still boasts [[List of U.S. cities with Hispanic majority populations#New Jersey|the largest Hispanic population percentage in New Jersey]], at 84.7% by the 2010 Census.<ref name=2010Census/>

By the early 2000s Union City had become a mix of the Latin and Asian diasporas, with [[Dominican American|Dominicans]] cited as the fastest-growing ethnic group, and other groups including [[Colombian American|Colombians]], [[Ecuadorean American|Ecuadoreans]] and [[Salvadoran American|Salvadorans]].<ref>Cave, Damien. [https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/15/nyregion/union-city-journal-a-park-s-dominican-name-reflecting-quirky-diversity.html "Union City Journal; A Park's Dominican Name, Reflecting Quirky Diversity"]. ''[[The New York Times]]'', August 15, 2004. Accessed July 6, 2017.</ref> Despite the decline in the size of the Cuban population, the major New York City [[television news]] outlets will often journey to Union City to interview citizens when developments in [[Cuba–United States relations]] occur.<ref name=NYTimes2.21.08/><ref name=NYTimes3.22.16/>

As of the 2000 Census, 5.94% of Union City's residents identified themselves as being of [[Ecuador]]ian ancestry, which was the third highest of any municipality in New Jersey and the seventh highest percentage of Ecuadorian people in any place in the United States with 1,000 or more residents identifying their ancestry.<ref>[http://www.epodunk.com/ancestry/Ecuadorian.html Ecuadorian Communities] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061110231932/http://www.epodunk.com/ancestry/Ecuadorian.html |date=November 10, 2006 }}, EPodunk. Accessed June 28, 2006.</ref> That number increased to 12.6%, according to December 2017 Census figures.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.towncharts.com/New-Jersey/Demographics/Union-City-city-NJ-Demographics-data.html|title=Union City, New Jersey Demographics Data|date=December 2017|access-date=May 29, 2021|publisher=Towncharts.com|archive-date=January 16, 2020|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200116225017/https://www.towncharts.com/New-Jersey/Demographics/Union-City-city-NJ-Demographics-data.html}}</ref>