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averaging 17.1 percent, in 53 counties. The third group, com¬ 
prising Colorado, Indiana, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, 
and Wisconsin, has a small and usually a much scattered vote 
of 14.6 per cent, in 29 counties. The facts concerning the 
Greenback counties in all these states will be presented for each 
group as a whole, in order to avoid confusion and to bring out 
forcibly the characteristics of the typical Greenback county, if 
such there exists. 
Table II. 
Groups of States. 
Manu¬ 
factures. 
Value 
per 
capita. 
Farm 
Produce. 
Value 
per 
capita. 
Total 
value man¬ 
ufactures 
and 
farm pro¬ 
duce per 
capita. 
Total 
valua¬ 
tion per 
capita. 
Farm 
values 
per 
acre. 
Group I— 
Average for 5 states. 
51.1 
I 
55.3 
106.4 
233.9 
16.9 
Average for 224 Greenback Counties 
21 6 
51 3 
72.9 
194.4 
12.7 
Group II— 
Average for 4 states.. 
55.9 
47.9 
83.1 
197.8 
16.2 
Average for 53 Greenback Counties 
17 9 
48.9 
65.6 
168.4 
13.4 
Group III— 
Average for 6 states... 
78.5 
46 5 
125.1 
302.5 
23.2 
Average for 29 Greenback Counties 
33.7 
55.1 
88.8 
227.8 
17.9 
If the large vote polled by the Greenback party is to any con¬ 
siderable degree the result of the environment of the voter, it 
ought to appear from an investigation, first, of the peculiar 
economic life in each of these counties under consideration and, 
second, of any evidence as to unusual financial burdens upon 
the property owner. An examination of Table II will afford us 
some glimpse into the particular economic features that charac¬ 
terize the Greenback counties. It will be seen in the first place 
that they are, in general, all agricultural communities, with a 
much less developed manufacturing industry than the average 
of the group; this is the most striking feature of the showing. 
It is next to be observed that though these groups are predomi¬ 
nantly agricultural, in even this particular they do not rank 
very high. In the last group, only, does the average consider¬ 
ably exceed that of the state and in the first group it falls below. 
