2. The widespread impression that the senti- 

 mental difference between the North and the 

 South during the war tend to make newcomers 

 from other sections uncomfortable. This im- 

 pression has its foundation more in the recon- 

 struction period than in the war period, and has 

 been a very important factor in this whole matter. 



3. A very general misconception of the negro 

 problem. 



4. The somewhat subconscious feeling that the 

 South is unhealthy because of the yellow fever 

 epidemics prevalent some years ago. This again 

 is really a matter of psychology, because, while 

 epidemics of many kinds passed over the United 

 States, the yellow fever epidemics were sectional 

 in character, and about the only very serious 

 ones which have been confined to a definite section 

 of the United States. 



5. The vague feeling that the long summers 

 and short winters generally constitute climatic 

 conditions tending — in a long period of years — 

 to slow undermining of aggressiveness and enter- 

 prise. This again is a matter of psychology and 

 based only upon the general impression of results 

 achieved in commercial, industrial, and, to a less 

 extent, agricultural development. 



6. The existence after the Civil War of enor- 

 mous forest areas in the Atlantic and Guif Coastal 

 plains region and to a much less extent in the 

 Piedmont sections. There was an enormous 

 stretch of pine forest reaching from Norfolk, Va., 

 to Galveston, Texas, and extending back well into 

 the Piedmont regions. 



Critical Analysis of Such Psychology. 



As a matter of fact, none of these separate ele- 

 ments constituting the entire psychology of the 

 situation will bear critical examination. The 

 movement westward has resulted in agricultural 

 land values in the far west really higher — every 

 thing considered — than elsewhere in the country. 

 Then it turned to the North and 950,000 Americans 

 went over into Canada in the great settlement 

 movement of the Canadian northwest. There 

 are a few sporadic instances of the trend turning 

 backward, and, doubtless, it will continue to in- 

 crease more and more. Nevertheless, the devel- 

 opment of the North and West continues at a 



