The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-01-13
The Future of tho South and West.

instruction and should give heady politi
clans pause. The last decade has not
only made great difference in the rela-
tive rank of the States as to population,
it has also opened new vista into the
future of the chief sections of the Union
respectively. Sixteen States have gone
lower in the ranks and six States 60 up
higher. Fourteen only hold in 1880 the
same rank which they held in lS70.-
These are ~ New York, ~ Pennsylva-
MIA, (3) Ohio, (4) Illinois, (5) Missouri.
(6) Indiana, ~ Massachusetts, (8) Ken.
tucky, (12) Georgia, a. North Carolina,
(2l) Louisiana, (24) California, (3l) New
Hampshire, 1867 Oregon. Iowa, the
eleventh in 1870, has now become the
ninth, and exactly changes places with
Tennessee. Virginia, that was tenth,
has become thirteenth, and gives place
to Texas, which goes up nine places at a
bound and puts herself next to Iowa.
Michigan, that was thirteenth, sinks to
the fifteenth place, while Wisconsin falls
one and becomes sixteenth in order
Alabama, sixteenth in 1870, has become
seventeenth; New Jersey in turn ceases
to be seventeenth and becomes eighteenth,
while Mississippi, which was eighteenth,
falls FIVE in rank and becomes twenty.
third. Maryland falls from twentieth to
twenty-second, while South Carolina,
which was twenty first, rises in the scale
two steps and stands nineteenth, just
leading Kansas. Maine loses six places
and falls from the twenty-third to the
twenty ninth, and Connecticut three
places, falling from the twenty-fifth to
twenty.eigh!h. Arkansas asceuds one
step, from twenty-sixth to twenty.fif
Western Virginia falls two steps, from
twenty-seventh to twenty. ninth. Min
nesota rises two, from twenty-eighth to
twenty sixth. Kansas steps up nine,
from twenty-ninth to twentieth. Yer
mont falls from thirtieth to thirty. y.second,
Rhode Island from thirty.second to thir-
ty-third, Florida from thirty third to
thirty. fourth, Colorado comes in as thir.
ty-fith, and little Delaware-thirty-
fourth in 1S70-is now tbirty.sevenlh.
Nebraska ascends from thirty-fifth to
thirtieth, while, oddly enough, Nevada,
with considerable increase Of popula.
ton, still remains at the foot Of the roll.
The irresistible influences of climate
and soil, it will be seen, are telling surely
at last in favor Of the South and South
west, as all intelligent observers long ago
saw that they would as soon as the artiti-
cial trammels imposed by the existence
of slavery upon the development of those
regions were removed. The silly and
scandalous efforts of low partisan journals
and of libellous twaddlers like the author
of ga FOOLS Errand" to fight against
these influences with mere misrepresen-
tations of Southern life and the Southern
people are certain to prove as futile as
Mrs. Partington's war with her broom
against the Atlantic. The percentage OF
increase throughout the South during the
past decade stands al 31.05, against 25.S5
at the North in general, while the per-
centage of increase in New England has
been only 14.70, and in New York, Penn
sylvania, Ohio and New Jersey taken
together only 1892. The fifteen so.called
Southern States have added 4,277, 200 to
their population, and the twelve Western
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absolute increase of Texas since 1870 has
been greater than that of any other State
in the Union, being $4,000 more than
that of Pennsylvania and $4,000 more
than that of New York. Her ratio of
increase has been enormous. Should she
maintain it for the next decade 1890 will
see Texas running close race with Hi.
nois for the fourth place in the list of
States. With the impulse sure to be
given her by the immense railway oper
ations now leading to and concentrating
upon her territory, indeed, Texas is not
to exceed this ratio, and in that
event Ohio will be hard pushed by her
for the third place. Colorado shows the
most colossal ratio of increase, reaching
3S9.S2 per cent, but this is obviously alb
normal, as is also the ratio of 267.S3 in
Nebraska and of 1874 in Kansas. The
only State which shows as important a
ratio OF increase, resting on causes likely |
to endure, as Texas, is Oregon, which has
grown at pace nearly double that of
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