Word: exodusing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...YANKEE EXODUS (398 pp.)-Stewart H. Holbrook-Macmillan...
Wise with years of research, Stewart Holbrook answers his own questions in a searching, richly documented book that traces the 19th Century exodus from New England into almost every corner of expanding America...
...poor-and the ads spread the word (truly) of rich soil and (falsely) of good roads and easy fortunes. After the Revolutionary War, thousands of Yankees poured into New York and Pennsylvania. In a few years, the trek to Ohio was on. Stay-at-home Yankees ridiculed the exodus; Ohio Indians tried using tomahawks to stop it. But the wagons rolled on, and mushrooming towns grew to look a lot like old New England towns, complete with village greens and gleaming white Congregational churches...
...negative way the emigrants influenced the New England they deserted, for by stripping their home states of cash and customers they left a lot of the stay-at-homes out of work. The New England spinster, not always old and homely, was also a product of the exodus of Yankee men. The thought of all those girls back East going to waste drove western bachelors wild, made them plead for someone "to bring a few spareribs to [the western] market." Finally a personable young bachelor named Asa S. Mercer, first president of the brand-new University of Washington at Seattle...
With Arthur Maxwell as president, D.C.C. got 60 industrial concerns and 30 banks to contribute to a cooperative credit pool of more than $500,000. By making loans to small businessmen who can't get a loan from a bank, D.C.C. hopes that it can slow down the exodus of industry from Maine, even persuade some outstate firms to come in. Not a penny of Government money has gone into D.C.C. Said Maxwell, who started in the banking business by "sweeping the floor" at the First National: "We're still rugged individualists here in Maine, and we think...