Statistics of Patriotism

Many a visitor to the Army at home and abroad has gone away with the impression that half the U.S.'s soldiers are from Texas. Getting down to figures last fortnight, Texas' Representative Wright Patman proved that while that was not true, Texas did have a higher percentage of volunteers than any other state.

From Texas' population of 6,414,824, the Army has enlisted 53,015. Its percentage: .826. Patman's list, furnished by the War Department, ranked the other state percentages thus:

Vermont .650% Ohio .401%

New Hampshire .634 Illinois .395

Rhode Island .631 Michigan .394

New Mexico .628 Minnesota .393

Oklahoma .611 Nevada .390

Massachusetts .604 Kansas .385

Montana .604 Georgia .378

Wyoming .601 Indiana .372

Colorado .591 Dist. of Columbia .365

Arizona .562 Delaware .349

California .544 Iowa .346

Washington .542 Louisiana .345

Pennsylvania .530 Missouri .329

Connecticut .529 Tennessee .326

New York .497 Virginia .322

Maryland .471 Utah .319

New Jersey .464 Arkansas .313

Wisconsin .458 Alabama .308

West Virginia .456 S. Dakota .295

Nebraska .438 Kentucky .266

Oregon .435 S. Carolina .265

Maine .433 N. Carolina .262

Idaho .410 N. Dakota .251

Florida .404 Mississippi .218

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