Mississippians in the West

I got this idea from a post on the Association of Professional Genealogists listserv where a person was talking about persons in a specific location in Montana who were from the state of Maine. I thought it would be interesting to see how many persons born in the state of Mississippi were in various Western states (and Plains States) at the time of the 1880 census. Using the search engine at Ancestry.com these are the results I came up with:

Arizona - 94
California - 1329
Dakota Territory - 65
Colorado - 488
Idaho - 61
Kansas - 3451
Nebraska - 370
Nevada - 51
New Mexico - 70
Oregon - 147
Utah - 152
Washington - 52
Wyoming - 44

And . . . for the record . . . there were 61,703 Mississippians in Texas.