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Libby—The Greenback Movement , 1876-84. 
Kansas supplies two typical Greenback groups, with all the 
characteristics strongly marked. It is worthy of notice, also, 
that the northwestern group has the larger vote and shows 
most strikingly the statistical evidence of poverty, simple 
economic life, predominantly agricultural in character, and 
heavily burdened farm lands, 59 per cent, of the value of each 
acre being covered by mortgage, and in one county the ratio is 
95 per cent. The Green river group of Kentucky, situated 
mainly in this river valley, belongs in rank with that of north¬ 
western Kansas, which it resembles in the main features of its 
economic life. Its per cent, of mortgage value to farm value, 
while very large, is less, however, than that of the state. 
The Texas group contains twenty-nine counties, six of which 
polled a Greenback majority vote. This most important of all 
the groups lies in central Texas, one hundred miles from the 
coast, in the river valleys of the Colorado, the Brazos, and the 
Trinity. It is for the most part a compact mass of counties, 
but four prolongations extend this group up these three river 
valleys and connect it on the northeast with the valley of the 
Sabine. In every particular but farm values this group shows 
decided marks of a purely agricultural section, poorer and less 
developed than the average county in the state. In particular 
its very large ratio of mortgages to farm values proves that it 
is no exception in this feature of its economic life. It should 
also be added in this connection that no other occupations have 
as great an importance as agriculture and manufacturing, — 
cattle raising at this time, at least for the counties under 
consideration, being of slight importance. 
The West Virginia groups are found respectively between 
the waters of the upper Monongahela and those of the Little 
Kanawha, and along the middle course of the Great Kanawha. 
The northern group touches the Ohio river slightly, but both 
may be considered interior groups, practically out of reach of 
this great waterway. As has already been pointed out for the 
Kansas groups, the larger vote of the second group shows itself 
in a general intensifying of the typical economic features of 
these counties, the only exceptions being those of the local debt 
and the mortgage values. This group is also seen to be very 
