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- Aug 25, 2012
When compared to the free states, the slave states had less periodicals being published. In 1850 the slave states published periodicals including the District of Columbia had a circulation of 92 million as opposed to 333 million in the free states excluding California. So unless Southerners read much less than Northerners, many Southerner were reading periodicals published in the North. The above data includes daily, semi-weekly, weekly, semi-monthly, monthly and quarterly publications. This does not indicate that the slave states had small number of newspapers and magazines (722 to 1893) but they had lower circulation rates. The major Northern newspapers and magazines were much broader in scope than most Southern newspapers and magazines and it would appear that many Southerners reading Northern periodicals.
My question is, did Southerners reading Northern newspapers influence the way Southern thought or viewed the world?
My question is, did Southerners reading Northern newspapers influence the way Southern thought or viewed the world?