35 Counties Account for 50% of Foreclosures

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| Tue Mar. 10, 2009 8:36 AM PDT
USA Today points out that, last year, just 32 counties accounted for one half of all foreclosures in the United States. Those counties are outlined in red below. Even among them, there are some areas that are worse than others: "Eight counties in Arizona, California, Florida and Nevada were the source of about a quarter of the nation's foreclosures last year."


And yet, California is, on average, the happiest state in the nation. Weird how things work. (H/T The Electoral Map)
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