About a half-century ago Florida was a sleepy, swampy, Southern state with a population of less than 3 million. Today it’s a megastate—an urbanized, ever-growing international mix of more than 18 million people. What brought about this dramatic transformation?
An upcoming PBS television documentary shows how it happened. The Florida Dream, scheduled to air Thursday, Oct. 18 at 9 p.m., traces Florida’s metamorphosis.
Produced by the Florida Humanities Council and WEDU-TV of west central Florida, this one-hour documentary explores how millions of people from across the United States and around the globe migrated here in search of the Florida dream. Looking for their own piece of paradise, they transformed an exotic, sparsely populated, subtropical peninsula into America’s fourth-largest state.
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