532 Libby—The Greenback Movement , 1876-8If. 
different counties where this vote was important we can obtain 
a fair conception of the economic environment which produced 
it. For this purpose the tenth census affords abundant mater¬ 
ial, and this forms the ground work for the conclusions here 
offered. The inquiry has been limited to those counties whose 
Greenback vote is 10 per cent, of the total vote. This furnishes 
us for the year 1880 with 306 counties, distributed over fifteen 
states. 
Table I. 
Groups of States. 
Total 
Number of 
Counties. 
Greenback 
Counties. 
Per cent, 
of 
Greenback 
Vote 
in State. 
Per cent, 
of 
Vote in 
Greenback 
counties. 
Group I. 
638 
224 
8.1 
22.9 
Iowa. 
99 
33 
10.3 
19.1 
Kansas. 
lie 
39 
9.8 
16.3 
Michigan. 
82 
26 
9.8 
17.4 
Missouri... 
117 
45 
8.8 
20.3 
Texas . 
227 
81 
1.8 
31.0 
Group II. 
348 
53 
5.3 
17.1 
Illinois. 
102 
12 
4.2 
12.7 
Kentucky . 
117 
19 
4.3 
18.1 
Mississippi. 
75 
9 
4.9 
20.4 
West Virginia. 
54 
13 
8.0 
17.8 
Group III... 
430 
29 
2.8 
146 
Colorado. 
32 
3 
2.6 
14.7 
Indiana. 
94 
5 
2.5 
12.4 
Nebraska. 
80 
5 
4.5 
14.6 
Pennsylvania.. . 
67 
6 
2.3 
16.6 
Tennessee. 
94 
7 
2.4 
14.8 
Wisconsin. 
63 
3 
2.5 
14.3 
As will be seen from Table I, there are three well defined 
groups of these states. The first comprises Iowa, Kansas, 
Michigan, Missouri, and Texas, and has an average vote of 
22.9 per cent, in 224 counties, nearly two-thirds of the whole 
The second group, Illinois, Kentucky, Mississippi, and West 
Virginia, has a smaller but on the whole quite compact vote 
