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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA
tions of the State into one progressive and constructive force for <
a bigger and better future.
In the meanwhile, however, the huge National wave of emigra
tion carried hundreds of thousands of Georgians into the Great
West to help in building new state units. Texas was perhaps the
greatest gainer by the migration from Georgia. According to the
Governor of Texas, there were 800,000 Georgians and their de
scendants in that State in 1915. Their numbers in other states, in
all occupations of life, would constitute a mighty host. New
York and Chicago have proved to be strong loadstones to their
adventurous and ambitious spirits. Wherever he is, however,
at home or abroad, the true Georgian is a man of mark. No state
in the Union has been less exposed to the modifying influence of
foreign immigration, and therefore its people are in the main of
the purest blood of the American Revolution.
The New Georgia, lusty, strong and purposeful, is made up of
the natives, and sons and daughters of natives, of all sections of
the country, and in her greeting to all comers, she knows no North,
no South, no East, no West.