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Show 78 service and trade functions. tion indicates that In most instance s agriculture These facts are is of dominant ization slight! y higher This 'situation was an large rural popula in the area. to the Western over-all than that of the nation, largely a importance particularly pertinent In 1950 the eleven Western States showed , as is degree depicted economy. of urban in Table 11. due to the influence of the Pacific Coast States, particularly California. Income Table 12 shows total and per capita income received s by in habitants of the eleven Western States and the United States in 1940 and 19510 Persons residing in the Western States received 12.4 per cent of the total national income in 1940 and income in the West increased from 1951, an increase of 282.8 per cent, for the nation income the was region during the $9.4 billion in 1940 to compared period. same 14.9 per cent in 1951. to Total $36 billion only 220.3 in per cent The West's increase in total concentrated in California. showed substantial increases, However, all other States in as is clearly Indi ca.ted by Table 12. The per capita than that of the nation. Coast income in the eleven Western States is This fact is due to the influence of the Pacific States, since the Mountain States, income below the national average, as Per from capita income During the $575 $1,584. to same in the West period higher rose the per capita as a group, is illustrated $673 show a per capita by Table 12. in 1940 to $1,781 in 1951. income of the nation increased from |
