Flores son cuts grass for some neighbors on their street of 50 homes, where whites, blacks, Puerto Ricans and other Hispanics live. When she first moved to Southwood, the area was mostly non-Hispanic white, she said. Not far from Flores, Aaron Moore just moved into an apartment complex off Americana Boulevard. It s a virtual United Nations. There are Asians, Hispanics and blacks.
Some blacks are immigrants from Africa and Caribbean islands.
Some Asians also are immigrants from India, China and other places. Moore, who moved to Orlando two months ago from Ohio, can smell the food, which he thinks is wonderful. It s crazy. These are my real neighbors. But it s the in-between shades that are mixing things up in Orlando, a place where not too long ago diversity also was defined strictly in terms of black and white.