. The story of American democracy, political and industrial . , 1819 ; Maine, 1820 ; andMissouri, 1821. During the next decade the Western Statesgrew at the rate of from a hundred to a hundred and fifty percent, while Massachusetts and Virginia remained almost sta-tionary. Ohio in 1830 had a million people, — more thanMassachusetts and Connecticut together. The center ofpopulation in 1830 was 125 miles west of Baltimore ; and theMississippi valley contained more than three and a half mil-lions of our total population of thirteen millions, while a mil-lion more, in the back districts of the old
. The story of American democracy, political and industrial . , 1819 ; Maine, 1820 ; andMissouri, 1821. During the next decade the Western Statesgrew at the rate of from a hundred to a hundred and fifty percent, while Massachusetts and Virginia remained almost sta-tionary. Ohio in 1830 had a million people, — more thanMassachusetts and Connecticut together. The center ofpopulation in 1830 was 125 miles west of Baltimore ; and theMississippi valley contained more than three and a half mil-lions of our total population of thirteen millions, while a mil-lion more, in the back districts of the older States, really be-longed to this Western movement. Since 1800, the Westhad grown from a tenth to a third of the nation. New Eng-lands total population was only two million, and she had RAPIDITY OF GROWTH, 1815-1830 403 gained only half a million in the last decade (even includingthe growing frontier State of Maine), while the Missis-sippi valley States had gained a million and a half. Indianain the decade from 1810 to 1820 grew from 24,000 to 147,000 !. Throughout the period, Virginia held first place as motherState for the new commonwealths both north and Virginia stillsouth of the Ohio. Dr. Turner, whose New West the motheris so often quoted in this chapter, has some inter-esting figures to show the preponderance of Southern im- 404 MAKING THE THIRD WEST migration. Of the Illinois legislature in 1833, he tells us,58 members were from the South, 19 from the MiddleStates, and only 4 from New England. As late as 1850,two thirds the population of Indiana was Southern in , the Hoosier element was, originally, wholly fromNorth Carolina. New England was populating her own frontier countiesin Maine, and also, in good measure, the western districts of New York and the Lake region of Ohio. HerEngland SOUS did uot begin to come in large numbers intoimmigration i\^^ great Central valley until the close of this period. So far as they did come, they were fromher western d
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