In The Real State of America Atlas, new from Penguin, Cynthia Enloe and Joni Seager use catchy, colorful graphics to give a revealing statistical look at the United States.
We flipped through it and compiled this odd list of facts about Florida and its place in the world:
Percentage of Florida land owned by the state and federal governments: 26
Percentage nationally: 39
Percentage in Nevada: 81
Number of metro areas in Florida where one-third or more of all housing units received foreclosure notices in the first half of 2010: 6 (Naples, Cape Coral, Deltona, Orlando, Port St. Lucie, Miami)
Number of metro areas in the whole country where this happened: 16
Number of Florida cities among the 10 meanest to the homeless, according to the National Coalition for the Homeless: 4 (Gainesville, Orlando, Bradenton, St. Petersburg)
Number of states with 50 or more megachurches (congregations of 2,000 or more): 5 (California, Texas, Ohio, Georgia, Florida)
Florida's gross domestic product: $737 billion, about the size of the economy of the Netherlands
Number of Florida cities with five or more headquarters of Fortune 500 firms: 0
Number of states in which foreign-born workers represent at least 20 percent of the labor force: 6 (California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, New York, Florida)
Number of states in which more than 20 percent of the population has no health insurance: 3 (New Mexico, Texas, Florida)
Percentage of U.S. households that have guns: 43
Percentage in Florida: 26
Percentage of Floridians in the corrections system in 2007: 3.22
States with 50 or more Superfund cleanup sites: 5 (California, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Florida)
Florida cities in which defense contractor Lockheed Martin employs more than 500 people: 1 (Orlando)
Number of Starbucks stores in Florida: 583
Number of hogs: 20,000
Mike Wilson, Times staff writer
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