53 ] ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA -3 



TABLE IX 

 American Literati Classified by Rank by Region of Birth 



Region of 

 birth > 



Canada 



New England 

 Middle Atlantic. .. 

 South Atlantic 

 East South Central 

 West South Central 

 East North Central 

 West North Central 

 Unknown 



Total 



Rank 



Merit 



15 



35 2 

 246 



80 



14 



3 



38 



3 

 2 



753 



Talent 



3 



135 



70 



19 

 1 

 1 



15 

 2 

 1 



247 



Total 



18 



487 



3 l6 

 99 

 IS 



4 

 53 



5 



1000 



Talent 

 per cent : 



28 

 22 

 19 



28 



24.7 



Maryland alone had as high rank as the lowest of the New 

 England and Middle Atlantic states. 



(5) The states formed from the Northwest Territory on 

 the whole ranked with the southern states, distinctly lower 

 than those of the east. 3 



1 New England Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, 

 Rhode Island, Connecticut. 



Middle Atlantic New York, New Jersey. Pennsylvania. 



South Atlantic Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, 

 West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida. 



East South Central Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi. 



West South Central Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma. 



East North Central Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin. 



West North Central Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri. North Dakota, 

 South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas. 



2 Not given when very few persons are concerned, for the ratio 

 would be spuriously accurate and therefore misleading. 



3 Care must be used in drawing comparisons among states in cases 

 where the recorded instances are too few to permit accurate statistical 

 deductions. 



Other investigators have discovered striking differences in the pro- 



