Dist. of Col. 13
Maryland 25
New York 28
Massachusetts 29
Virginia 29
California 30
Nevada 30
Delaware 31
New Jersey 32
Connecticut 34
Montana 34
Rhode Island 35
Minnesota 36
Pennsylvania 38
Vermont 38
Colorado 38
Wyoming 38
North Dakota 40
Washington 42
Illinois 43
Louisiana 44
Kentucky 46
Wisconsin 46
Georgia 47
Michigan 49
North Carolina 50
Ohio 50
Arizona 51
Nebraska 51
Florida 52
N. Hampshire 53
Missouri 53
Oregon 54
Tennessee 55
Maine 56
Utah 57
South Dakota 60
Alabama 61
South Carolina 61
Idaho 62
Iowa 62
Indiana 63
Mississippi 66
West Virginia 69
New Mexico 75
Texas 76
Kansas 88
Arkansas 93
Oklahoma 156]
This is also made evident by the diagram. Forty-nine of the fifty
largest cities in the United States are found in the first thirty-four
states in the list; only one of the fifty is found in the last fifteen
states. The fact is apparently most clearly shown in the case of the
District of Columbia, which has an almost exclusively urban population
and ranks first with reference to the number of servants employed. The
condition here, however, is due not so much to its urban character
as to the employment of colored help and the fact that the city
contains an abnormally large number of temporary residents requiring
a disproportionate amount of service. The truth of the proposition is
better indicated by the examples of New York, Massachusetts, and New
Jersey, which stand nearly at the head of the list and contain seventeen
of the fifty largest cities.
(3) The aggregate wealth of a state has little appreciable effect on the
relative number of domestic servants employed.
This is evident from a study of the relative true and assessed valuation
of real and personal property in the different states.[203] In more than
one half the states it has no apparent connection whatever with the
relative number of servants.
(4) The per capita wealth of a state has, with the exception of the
Southern states as a class, a somewhat important bearing on the relative
number of servants employed.
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