> Not as
> crowded as California.
Actually, Florida's population density is slightly higher than California's
[220.5 people/sq. mile vs. 187.5 people/sq. mile, 1990 census]. But
California's population is concentrated in several very large metropolitan
areas with a lot of basically uninhabited territory inbetween, whereas
Florida (and most of the rest of the eastern U.S.) has a more even mix of
smaller cities and towns spread across the state. In California we have a
lot of mountains and deserts where almost nobody lives. If one were to
bisect the state into east and west halves by a border formed by connecting
the east-west midpoints at every latitude, the western half would contain
more than 95% of the population. But even in Los Angeles County, about 1/3
of the land is wilderness.
Adam
