Monday, Feb. 01, 1943
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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