The area was becoming decent, then Hurricane Andrew came and made a mess of it. Thats about when I left the area as well.
It is actually a fairly "white" (70+%)part of town, hispanics being less than 40% of the population, which in Miami, is pretty low :)
Still, it is considered a rather white trashy area.
*chuckle* My father would die to be called white trash—it’s actually very very firmly middle class...I grew up there as a teen in the 80’s and it is the demographics that you say, even still today from what I understand. It’s proximity to Goulds and South Miami makes it kind of iffy though. We knew many people, including my dad, who worked on base—I even took a few college courses there in my late teens. It did indeed change when Andrew came through and I made my leave as well.
The jetty off Black Point is truly lovely...although from pictures I’ve seen it looks as though some of it was washed during hurricanes—sad that.