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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 



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.' 



* 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. 



' 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- 



