. Actual government as applied under American conditions. his population is distributed. Great areas inthe West have less than two inhabitants to the square mile,while some sections in the heart of cities are as crowded asEast London or Canton. The areas of thick population andof the richest and most prosperous cities are on the NorthAtlantic coast (from Portland, Maine, to Washington), throughCentral New York and tlie Valley of the Ohio, in the NorthernMississippi Valley, and about the Great Lakes. The distribution of population is much affected by concen-tration into cities. In 1900, 25,000,
. Actual government as applied under American conditions. his population is distributed. Great areas inthe West have less than two inhabitants to the square mile,while some sections in the heart of cities are as crowded asEast London or Canton. The areas of thick population andof the richest and most prosperous cities are on the NorthAtlantic coast (from Portland, Maine, to Washington), throughCentral New York and tlie Valley of the Ohio, in the NorthernMississippi Valley, and about the Great Lakes. The distribution of population is much affected by concen-tration into cities. In 1900, 25,000,000, or nearly one thirdof the population, lived in the 546 cities. To be sure, the ruralpoi)ulation is also increasing : the 50,000,000 rural dwellers in1900 are as many as the whole population, urban and rural,in 1880 ; but there are large areas, especially in New England,where the country towns have decayed and the former homesof prosperous families are left to go to ruin. This is a signnot of loss, but of gain, an evidence that the people have found. (Lmigmana, Oreeii d Co., New York it London. DIST111I5UTI0N OP THE PO! DN OF THE UNITED STATES, 1900. [ReproducedJ of Txrelfth §5] Race Elements. 9 better conditions in the neighboring cities or in far-off country-homes. The largest aggregation of city population in 1900 wasGreater New York, with 3,437,202 people; then followed, inthe order of the number of people, Chicago, Philadelphia,St. Louis, Boston, Baltimore, Cleveland, Buffalo, San Fran-cisco, Cincinnati, Pittsburg. The city of New York has init about as many people as the whole country west of thewatershed of the Rocky Mountains ; and fourteen of the statesof the Union have each fewer people than live in the city ofCleveland. The effect of city growth has been to disturbthe balance of government within states possessing great cen-tres : in New York, Massachusetts, Maryland, Illinois^ Missouri,Louisiana, and Ohio there is a difference of interest betweent
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