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now reside there. The gains have been most 

 notable in the Mountain and Pacific states. 

 Among the persons listed in " Who's Who," 48 

 ■(.S per cent.) were born in the Mountain 

 states — i66 (2.5 per cent.) now reside there; 

 207 (1.2 per cent.) were born in the Pacific 

 -states — 865 (4.8 per cent.) now reside there. 

 Apparently the northeastern section of the 

 IJnited States has lost heavily in favor of the 

 extreme western portion of the country. Al- 

 though producing a negligible portion of the 

 total distinguished persons, the western states 

 are gaining considerably through the migra- 

 tion of distinguished persons from their birth- 

 place. 



An excellent corroboration of this appears 

 from a study of specific states. Among the 

 Eastern states, Massachusetts, New York, New 

 Jersey and Illinois alone have more distin- 

 guished persons now resident than were born 

 in them. At the same time, Minnesota and 

 J'lorida have a resident population of distin- 

 -guished persons larger than the number born 

 -there. With the exception of Florida and the 

 ^District of Columbia, these states are western 

 •and southwestern states. The opposite condi- 

 tion appears if a list is made of those states in 

 which fewer distinguished persons are resi- 

 dent than the number born. In this list ap- 

 pear Maine, New Hampshire, Ehode Island, 

 Connecticut, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Ohio, 

 Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa to- 

 gether with eleven of the southern and east 

 south central states. 



The total number of persons native born in 

 the states having more distinguished persons 

 now resident than were born in them was 

 Y,302; the total number now resident in these 

 same states is 12,058. The total number of 

 persons born in the other group of states was 

 9,119; and the total number now resident is 

 6,042. 



A similar result may be arrived at by mak- 

 ing a table showing the number of states in 

 which the resident distinguished persons are 

 larger or smaller than the number native born 

 distinguished persons. 



If the statistics are carried out in the form 

 •of ratios, it appears that there were 12 states 



in which the ratio of distinguished now resi- 

 dent to distinguished born persons was less 

 than 74 per hundred. All of the states vsdth 

 the exception of Wisconsin were in the east- 

 ern and northeastern parts of the United 

 States. At the same time, there were 19 states 

 in which the ratio of distinguished persons 

 now resident to distinguished persons native 

 born was over 175 per hundred. Every one of 

 these states, except Florida, was west of the 

 Mississippi. 



A CLASSIFICATION SHOWING THE NUMBERS OP STATES 

 IN WHICH THE NUMBER OF RESIDENT DISTIN- 

 GUISHED PERSONS WAS LARGER AND IN 

 WHICH THE NUMBER WAS SMALLER 

 THAN THE NUMBER BORN IN THOSE 

 STATES, CLASSIFIED BY GEO- 

 GRAPHICAL DIVISIONS 



Number ol Stateg m Wuch Number ol 

 Resident Distinguisbed Persons la 

 Division Larger Smaller 



United States 



New England 1 5 



Middle Atlantic 2 1 



East North Central ... 1 4 



West North Central ... 6 1 



South Atlantic 2 7 



East South Central ... 4 



West South Central . . .4 



Mountain 8 



Pacific 3 



There seems to be no question but that the 

 great men of the present generation have been 

 moving steadily westward. The older parts of 

 the country produced them, but they have per- 

 sistently found their way into the newer parts. 

 Some critics will contend that this is merely 

 another way of saying that the opportunities 

 of the new territory brought out the latent 

 abilities of those who went there. While such 

 a view may have some justification, the fact 

 can not be lost sight of that while the west was 

 gaining so persistently, the east was as stead- 

 ily losing. 



The facts regarding the movement into the 

 cities are less conclusive, but none the less 

 significant. 



Of the four northeastern states showing a 

 larger number of distinguished persons now 

 resident than the number native born were 



