Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-04-07
Curiosities Of the Census.


partment exhibit some curious changes that
have taken place in the population of the
United States during the last decade. Tho
group of figures showing the relations of
tho sexes in the several State and Territories
is especially entertaining to those who are
interested in such SUBJECTS.
BY the census of 1880 tho total popula.
tion of tho United States is 50,15z,866.
New York State has the largest population,
6,083,810, and Wyoming tho smallest, 20 =
788. The total number of males is 25,.
$40 ,532, aud the total number Of females
24,682,2S4. A simple SUN in substracton
will show that the males have an excess Of
888.29S. New York has the lurgest male
population, 2506, ,283, and also the largest
femalc population, 2,577, ,527; an exoess of
71,244 females. Wyoming has the smallest
male population, ID, ,l5l and also the small
est number of females, 6,637; an excess of
7,5l4 males. South Carolina has total
population Of 905,622; males 90,469,
feuales 500, l53; on excess of l4,684 fe.
males. by the ocnsus Of 1870 tho number
of femuIes In tho United States to every
100000 males was 07,S01, which left o.
1919 males unprovided for. BY tho census
Of 1880 there ure in the United States
96,6l9 females to every 1000 males,
which leaves On exces of 3,481 males
There are seventeen Suites in the Union in
which the females are in oxcess of the
males. South Carolua has [02, 1894 females
to every 100000 males, or in this proper
ton. In thirty Suites and Territories the
males are in excess, and in the United
States, as whole, there he's been a loss of
1888 in the ratio of 100000 males in the
last decade. In South Carolina there was
an excess of females in 1870, but during
the last decade the proportionate excess has
decreased. There is, however, largo
excess of males in the United States as
whole.
The preponderance of females is in tho
Atlantic region und, with tho exception Of
Delaware, in the whole tier Of States along
this coast the females are in excess OF the
males. This excess reaches its maximum
in the District Of Columbia. In the South
erp portion Of the tier of Gulf States the
excess is but slight, while in the Northern
part it is very decided, showing the effect of
the Westward emigration Of the male ele-
nent and Of the existence of a class Of
manufactures in which females ore largely
employed. In tho Mississippi Valley tho
males ure slightly in excess, but the most
marked excess of males is iu the Territories
and newer States of the West, and espe-
olally in those Statcs and Territories where
the principal occupations of the people gro
mining aud cattle raising. La ell States
where immigration is active and the civil-
cation Of the communities is undevclopcd
the natural proportion of the sexes is dis
turbed. N
lu the Southern Statos, to which there
has been comparatively little Immigration
and which arc settled agricultural COM
munities, the sexes have remained ncnrly
equal in number, the females being slightly
in excess. The stetistics show that,
wherever the population has concentrated
iu the cities, or wherever thore has been
rapid growth of manufacturing and mining
industries or large immigration or cmigra-
ton, the normal relations of the sexes have
been disturbed. In the New England
and Middle Atlantic States there has been
Il large emigration Of males to the Vests
ward und proportional increase in the
proportion of females; while in tho South
Atlantic and Gulf States there has been
marked increase in the relative proportion
of malcs which is accounted for "hy the
cessation of emigration and to. the effort
of nature to restore the normal equilibrium
between the aexes which was disturbed by
the war" H.
The statistics from the census depart.
mcnt showing tho proportion between for
eign aud native born persons 10 the
United States aro also very interesting. Of
the total population 43,475,506 arc native
aud 6,677 800 foreign born. In South
Carolina tho total native population is 087,.
99l and foreign born persons to every 1O0,.
900 Of native population was 49, ,875 and
10 1880 1880. In no State does the
foreign clcment equal the native, although
in many it bears very large proportion to
it. With tho exception of Florida, Louisi.
ana and Texas tho Southern States are
practically without any foreign clement,
and in South Carolina the foreign is equal
to less than two per cent. OF the native
population. The large foreign element IN
tho Northeastern oDd Northwestern States
and in the Western States and Territories
is due to the great mining aud cattle rails
ing interests in those States in which go
large number of tho foreign immigrants
to this country engages. In thirtY.one
States aud Territories Of the Union tho
natural incroaso has gained upon immigra-
ton, and in the United States, as whole,
there hns been native increase upon for.
eign immigration. The increase of the
foreign element has boon in New England,
whore the growth has been 10 tho direction
of manufactures; in Dakota and Oregon,
whose wheat fields have invited settlement; ;
and Colorado aud New Mexico, wherc on
extraordinary development OF the mining