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 became fixed in the public’s mind, and served to perpetuate the use of this set of standard groupings in the Census Bureau’s publications.

The 1883 edition of the Statistical Atlas (privately published as Scribner’s Statistical Atlas of the United States) also used Gannett’s groupings of States. The chapter on physical geography has a section on “Natural Grouping of States,” including a map of the five major geographic divisions. The chapter on population has a few short tables that group the States by these geographic divisions.

Table 6-2. Shifts in the Naming and Arrangement of Regions and Divisions