Abstract
The first state to ratify the United States Constitution, Delaware, was a slave-holding but non-seceding state during the Civil War, and in 1901, became the last state to ratify the 14th Amendment. The next smallest state in size (95 miles at the longest point, 11 to 34 miles wide), Delaware is divided into three counties-New Castle County, the Northernmost county, Kent County in central Delaware, and Sussex County, the Southernmost county. The industrialization of Northern Delaware has resulted in a change in the traditional agrarian economy of the two lower counties. In fact, over onehalf of the population in Kent and Sussex Counties are non-farmers who have given up agricultural pursuits for more lucrative earnings in small industry. This rural non-farm population represents an in-between group, neither rural nor urban in outlook.
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