536 
Libby—The Greenback Movement , 1876-8 4 . 
Again, the counties of Michigan are grouped in two divisions, 
the agricultural and the manufacturing, on the ground of their 
differences in the per capita value of agricultural and manu¬ 
facturing products respectively. 
In Table IV is seen tabulated results for ten groups in seven 
states. The average Greenback vote for these groups is nearly 
three times as great as that of the states represented, being 
21.1 per cent, of the total vote, and hence they may be taken as 
typical districts. The first group, that of southern Iowa and 
northern Missouri, consists of about the same number of 
counties in each state. The Iowa portion lies mostly southwest 
of the Des Moines river, the heaviest Greenback counties not 
touching this river, and is drained by rivers flowing south 
through Missouri into the Missouri river. The Missouri portion 
lies north of the Missouri river, and is massed largely in a 
north and south belt just west of the Mississippi river, from 
which it is separated by a considerable space. It will be seen 
from an examination of the table that these counties possess 
most of the Greenback characteristics already pointed out as 
typical, namely small per capita value of manufactures and 
total per capita value of farm produce and manufactures; a 
lower average total valuation as well as farm value per acre; 
and a less developed economic life, shown by a smaller local 
debt and total tax per capita. In the case of the proportion of 
mortgage value to farm value per acre, there is an exception to 
the general rule, it being the same as the average for the two 
states. For Iowa alone, however, the state average is 35 per 
cent, and that of its Greenback counties is 39.2 per cent. All 
of the southern states except Texas show the same general ten¬ 
dency toward exceedingly high ratios of mortgages to farm 
values, without doubt owing to the burdens and losses of the 
late war. 
