The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-11-16
The end shall he brieny told.
TIE RANK or STATES.
Some Of the Changes Which Past GonHnses
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| Now that we arc on the eve of n new com
sils which will most nssuredlY make great
| changes In tho relative rink OF some Of tho
| States, IL ID uf Interest tu look back at the
| different censlses which have been taken, md
| trace tho progress of tho States Ms indicated
4 Nv those Asrannial records. The rapid strides
nf the great West during tho present decade,
ana tho VOL uuderstood fact that Southern
immigration. which ~ the close Of tho war
gave promise vi supplying tho South with
much needed element of progress. has almost
entirely censed coupled with tho phenomenal
exodus of her lnhnring population. will doubt
Less develop some startling results MT tho
publication of the tenth census IN 1890
We have carefully examined the past con-
aus reports. and lind tho following interest
| ing facts:
New York. now and for 80 long the Empire
State WINS not always SO; for she began IN
| 100 the fth III innk, standing below Vir-.
gInla. pennsylvana North Garn .h1n a nn
Ing atilI below Virginia and Pennsylvania.
and In 1910 she WAS still below Virginia. In
1890 sle stepped to the front, and Inns since
maintained thnt position.
| Virginia held the ranking position among
the alsthrhood from tho organization until
supplanted by New York. In 1870 Pennsyl-
baria went above her, and In ls4O Ohio dis
placed her. This position she held until 1860,
was compaled to go below Missouri, Indiana.
Nj massachusetts. Kentucky and Tsnnessee.
standing tenth IN rank
pennayvnnin, ns becomes the Keystone OF
j the ursnt arch has maintained the most oven
position OF tho entire list Of contestants. In
/ 100 and 1900 ahn was the second. aud In 1910
and 1890 she was third, and In 1880 she rose to
the second place. which she haa since hold.
North Carolina which started out second IN
the great rivalry, fell to fourth In 1900, which
rank ahe hold until 1890, when she foil TO ittth
In 1910 to seventh. In 1850 to tenth. In 1860 to
twslfth. and In 1870 to fourteenth.
Massachusetts. with the sturdy energy and
Independence 40 characteristic Of her. has well
maintained her position. Starting Mt tho
fourth III rank, she fell off but ono grade Mt
two subsequent enumerattnna. In 1890 she
fall 10 seventh. In 1880 and 1910 she fell Off one
moro grade, In 1850 she rallied 10 sixth. and
in 1860 aud 1870 she stood seventh In the col
i unD.
figured la the first cenalls sixth In rank, fell
In 1870 to seventh IN 1910 TO eighth, In 1890 to
tenth, In 1880 Us eleventh, In 1910 to fifteenth.
In 1850 to seventeenth, In 1860 10 nineteenth,
and lii 1870 to twentieth.
South Carolina shows u creator decline.
, Originally tho seventh In rank, shs advanced
III 1900 mud 1910 TO sixth, foil In 1870 10 eighth.
In 1880 to ninth. In 1910 to eleventh, i'll 1900 to
fourteenth, i'll 1860 TO seventeenth, ana LII 1870
to twenty second,
| Connecticut has passed through successive
downward grades from eighth IN ll9O 10
. twenty-t fifth tn 1870, which she did In tho fol-
} lowing order: In 1900 aud 1900 she was
eighth In 1910 ninth, in ta2D fourteenth, In
1880 sixteenth IN 1910 twentieth, in 1850 TWEEN
ty-llrst, In 1860 tweuty-fourth, and in 1870
twenty fifth. :,
IN 1900 to tenth, IN 1910 to twelfth. In 1920 and
1870 losing ono grade In each term, In 1910 TO
eighteenth ana I'm 1850 and 1860 losing one
more grade IN ouch, and rallyng In 1870 To
seventeenth.
Nav Hampshire fell from tenth In 1900 to
tbrty-ilrst In 1870, making the heaviest de-
cenniul decline from 1850 to 1860. when she foil
off from twenty second to twenty Seventh.
Maine starting next below New Hamp-
shire, now ranks her by eight grades, stand
Ing twenty third In TIN, list
Vermont hns gone down from the twelfth
to the thrtieth, having declined from twenty
third to twenty eighth In the decade ending
tn 1860.
. Georgia, III point Of population. ranks rela
lively higher than she did IN 1880. She began
as thirteenth, rose to twelfth In 1900, In 1916
! and 1920 sto Il eleventh, In 1880 she rose tf
tenth. In 1910 and 1850 she stood ninth, In
y 1860 eleventh, and in 1870 twelfth, but one
= grade above where she started.
o Kentucky has had her own ups and downs
but on the whole has made substantial rea
tive progress Beginning Mt fourteenth Ii
y 1890. although then but Il Territory, che ros'
!, In 1900 to ninth. 1910 to seventh. In lszo tt
q sixth. which rank she held In 1890 and 1910
II But she fell off In 1850 to eighth, IN 1850 u
. tenth and Iii 1870 rose to eighth.
8 Rhode Island has had an uniform End ripple
!; decline from fifteenth in 1890 to thirty
- In 1870. ,,,,,
9 Delaware has gone to the rear more rapid,
. than any or the other contestants. In wv
u she began at the sixteenth grade, While II
% 1870 she was thirty-fourth In the list, the oni,
States below her being the young States 0
I, Nebraska, Oregon and Nevada
"a Tennessee, though not admitted as q stat
y until 1906 figures In the first census as IN
" lowest In the list. She deserves TO be chiiet
20 the Empire State of the South. as she ha'
10 progressed from the foot of the list In wv =
- the fifth In 1910 and 1850. and to the ninth II
y 1860 and 1870.
y This comprises all the States which figures
70 in the first census, though some OF them. 8
= we have seen, were not yet orRahlzeu y
States And now come new sisters 10 jon
themselves In the great rivalry, toremo5
Il among which was the iirstborn OF thee, ordl
Il nance Or 'S7, our own Ohio. She ls credited Il
1900 as the eighteenth in the list, though no
n admitted until two years later. from Ina
modest position she sprang at the end OF th
/ next ten years above Rhode Island, Ne'
Hampshire, Vermont and Maine to the thlt
n teenth rank in 1920 she had passed elRh
more 81 her competitors, and came In iittn
In 1890 she went up to fourth, and In lsio I
third. where she still remains.
Mississippi followed Ohio Ia 1900. losing on
rank each in the three following censnses
H. IT. 1910 she advanced to seventeenth, Ia 1880 I
IL. fifteenth, In 1860 to fourteenth, but fell OH
Dt 1870 to eighteenth. -,
n We quote Indiana In the census 81 l5ol
"a though she did not become a State until l5lt
She stood at the foot Of the list at the secon
N census She fell off one rank In 1910, bu
worked ahead bravely to eighteenth 10 lSz'
,a 10 thirteenth In 1880 to tenth In 1910, TO set
to enth In 1850, to sixth In 1860, which rank 81
he stil maintains.