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closely assimilated to the two Kansas groups and that of Ken¬ 
tucky, especially in its averages for the resources of the state. 
In the tabulated results for the first group several exceptions 
may be noted but as their entire number in the whole table is 
small, they do not vitiate the general conclusions so far reached. 
The southwest Missouri group is of interest from the fact 
that it lies in a section of the state which was Federal during 
the Rebellion. It occupies the region of the Ozark mountains, 
is drained by the Osage river, and is separated by a considerable 
space from both the Missouri and the Mississippi rivers. In the 
early growth of the state, it offered little to tempt the slave¬ 
holding planter and hence its anti-southern tendencies. Its lands 
are poor and its population contains a considerable proportion 
of miners. In a state whose manufactures have the same ratio 
to farm produce as in Michigan, about 7 :4, this section has a 
per capita value in manufactures hardly one-fourth that of its 
farm produce. In all other respects, also, it reveals a simple, 
undeveloped economic life. 
Michigan contains two groups of G-reenback counties, so dis¬ 
tinct from all the others as to merit separate discussion at some 
future time. The second of these, the Manufacturing group, is 
the only one of the ten groups in which the per capita value of 
manufactures is in excess of the farm produce,— indeed it is 
greater than the average for the state. In Michigan both 
groups show averages which cannot be reconciled with those of 
the other states. The Agricultural group has a per capita value 
of manufactures twice as large as that of any group in the other 
states; its total valuation is greatly in excess of its state aver¬ 
age, as is also its farm value per acre. The Manufacturing 
group, in its great excess of manufactures over farm produce 
and its greater tax and local debt per capita as compared with 
that of its state, partakes of this same exceptional character. 
Without means of comparison it is not now profitable to discuss 
the significance of this wide difference in economic life. It will 
have important bearing, however, upon the relation of the 
Greenback party of 1880 to the Populist party of 1892. The 
location of the Manufacturing group is quite as significant as 
its other features. Its counties are ranged chiefly along the 
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