1921 must have been a weird ( read : dreaded ) year to live on in the United States . They were pose out of World War I but not quite in the Roaring Twenties yet . They were beginning to brook through Prohibition and judging by this mapping of electricity user , if you did n’t exist on the East Coast , you were probably screw when it came to electrical energy .
The map by General Electric pretty much re - size of it US State Department according to the number of household users of electrical energy in each State Department in 1921 . The northeastern part of the US obviously dominates with a luck of electrical energy while the Confederate States and west getting slop out with none . The Star Tribune write :
New York ranks first , having an electric population ( served by central stations ) of 8,620,700 , or 78.7 per penny of its genuine population . The secondly largest state is Pennsylvania , with an electrical universe of 6,330,000 , or 68.8 per cent of the factual population ; third , Illinois , with 5,150,000 , or 79.8 per centime ; 4th , Massachusetts , with 4,030,000 or 97,8 per penny ; 5th , Ohio , with 3,550,000 , or 66.1 per penny , and sixth , California , with 2,827,000 , or 86.5 per penny .
At the time , only 57.3 percent of the United States had electrical energy ( ~62 million out of ~108 million ) . Washington DC in reality had the highest per centum of electric households at 98.2 . rugged time , those were . [ Star TribuneviaNeatorama ]
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