I live in SoFL. We have 2 very different stories happening within the Florida state totals. The urban+suburban areas have a rollicking booming hospital-bursting pandemic going on. The other counties have a minor manageable disease problem.
If we zoomed in within Florida just to the 6 or 7 main affected counties we’d see the cases or deaths per million numbers looking a bunch worse than @Lance_Turbo’s fine graphs.
Of course most states have the same divide between a couple or few heavily populated major conurbations and the remaining lightly populated out-counties. IMO FL has that divide more strongly than NJ which would mean that FL would compare even worse to NJ if we focused just on the more populated areas.