Since 1920, Florida has become one of the four most quickly and successfully developing States. From 1920 to 1990 the first population has increased by 13 times. According to the census of Florida's population in 2000 lived 15982 thousand people in the state.

Of course, the population density is uneven. Approximately 85% of US citizens live in areas of large cities and coastal resorts. In the central and northwestern regions of the peninsula - in rural areas are also home to a lot of Florida's citizens engaged in agriculture. But large areas of southern Florida, including the area Evergleyds and islands of the Gulf Coast, you can actually call uninhabitable.

In 1990, the percentage of Florida's population was as follows: 83% of white people; 13.6% - blacks, 1.2% Asian, and only 0.3% of the American Indian. Florida Hispanics - mostly former Cuban children and those who left the island in connection with the revolutionary events of the 50s. Twentieth century.

Many of Florida's Native American Indians - descendants of the tribe of Seminole (Seminole), whose ancestors retreated under the onslaught of white in Evergdeyds swamp after the Second Seminole War in 1842.

One group of Seminole State now living on reservations in the marshes to the north and east of Lake Okeechobee. Another - the reservation on the Big Cypress Swamp (Big Cypress Swamp), which lies in the north-west Evergleyds. In 1957 he founded the American Indian tribes of Florida Community Seminole "Seminole Tribe of Florida, Inc." and elected its first (since 1848) a constitutional government.