The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-28
MALES AND FEMALES.
There Are More Men Than
Women in the United States.
THE WOMEN ARE NOT GAINING.
Washington City Has . Large Surplus
OF Women. Washington . Deficit
Statistics Of Nativity.
From q CeneIls RnIietin.

United States in 1890 was g.. O67. $50 and
the whole number of females 80, So. $40.
For the United States as hole, there
fore, there were for every 100. 900 males
o., $50 females in 1890 In 1880 there were
81, 544 females to every 100, 900 males, while
in 1870 there were 97.S01 females to every
10000 males. The females exceeded the
males in 1890 TO a greater extent than per
cent. in the District of Columbia, Massa-
chnsetts and Rhode Island.
Washington in 1890 had Oil, 562 males
and 131, S28 females, or 100, 600 males to 64,-
5Z5 females. Thus the males exceeded
the females by 1854.
The greatest preponderance of females
III 1890 was found in the District of CO.
lumbia, or Ito, 242 females to 100000 males.
In 1850 also the District of Columbia con-
tanned the highest proportion of females
to males, or liz. 525 females to every 100-
600 males. In Massachusetts. the state
having the next greatest excess OF females
over males in 1890. there were los, $40 fe-
males to 10000 males. while in Rhode
Island, the state showing the third largest
excess of females over males, there were
lo5.62S females to every 1000 males. In
1880 Rhode Island was second as to the
excess of females. with 107.s7l females TO
every 100000 males, and Massachusetts,
third, with 107. 712 females to every 100 ,0G0
males.
In 1850 there were seven states which
showed an excess of females over males
from Is to per cent, namely, Connecti-
cut. with 1852 females to every 100. 900
males; New Hampshire, with 103, 4s3
females to every 100000 males; North
Carolina, with 1884, females to every
100000 males; South Carolina, with 103,-
O10 females to every 100, 900 males; New
York, with 2SS3 females To every 10000
males; Virginia. with 102, 1853 females TO
every 100000 males, and Alabama, with
1o2. 40 females to every 100. 600 males in
1880 there were none reported as having
similar percentages of excess.
The states in 1850 in which the excess of
females was less than 2.5 per cent. of the
males were Z in number namely, Mary
land, with 1872. 2S7 females to every 100, 600
males; Georgia, with 102, l26 females TO
every 100.0O males; New Jersey, with
1U.Ol3 females to every 100 900 males:
Louisiana, with 100,520 females to every
10000 males; Tennessee, with 100, 495 te-
males to every 100000 males; Pennsvl-
vania, with 100, 44S females to every 100. 900
males. and Maine. with 100. 253 females to
every 100000 males, as against s in 1890,
namely, North Carolina, with 1O2, 459 fe-
males to every 100, COO males; MARYLAND.
with 102, 135 females to every 100, 900 males;
Connecticut, with 10l 9i4 females to everv
100. 900 males; New Hampshire, with 1Ol ,s2l
females to every 100, 900 males New York,
with 10l 4S0 females to every 100 900 males;
New Jersey. with 100.457 females to every
100000 males South Carolina. with 10l. l3l
females to every 100000 males, and Vir-
ginia, with 100, Col females to every 100000
males.
The whole number of states and terri.
tories where the females exceeded the
males in 1890 was eleven, as against seven
teen in 1850. All of the states and terri
chc Sc g., Il
males in 1890 were found in the North At
lantIc and South Atlantic divisions, as was
also true of the states and territories hav-
ing an excess of females over males in 1880.
with the exception of Alabama, Louisiana
and Tennessee in the South Central d.
vision.
In 1880 there were five states and terri
tories IN which the number of females was
less than 50 per cent. of the males, namely,
Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming Arizona and
Montana, while in 1890 there is no state
or territory where the females do not rep
resent at least so per cent. of the males
In 1890 there were eleven states and ter
ritories mainly in the Western division,
in which the females represented from 30
to SO per cent. of the males. as against
five states and territories in 1850.
Fer the remaining states and territories
the females represent over so per cent,
but less than 100 per cent. of the males.
IN all the states ana territories ComprIS-
ing the North Atlantic and South Atlantic
divisions the females have decreased rela-
lively as compared with males. This is also
largely true OF the South Central division,
the females having decreased relatively in
all the states and territories, with the ex-
ceptIon of Texas.
In Oklahoma in 1890 there were 1902
females TO each 100. 900 males.
The females have increased relatively as
regards males in all the states comprising
the North Central division. with the ex-
ception of Ohio and Wisconsin. The fe-
males have also increased relatively as
compared with the males in the states and
territories comprising the Western dlvi-
sion. with the exception of New Mexico,
Utah and Washington.
OF the inhabitants of Washington in
1890 80. 3S5 were native-born and 90.005
foreIgn-born. That is to say, there were
"a, go foreigners to 10000 natives.
There were in the United States as
whole Il, $50 foreign-born persons TO each
100. 600 nat've-born persons in 1880 as
against l., 365 in 1880 and 1855 in 1870.
There has been an increase in the number
of foreign born to each 10000 native-born
for the North Atlantic division from
p. 070 in 1850 to -, T13 in 1890. and in
the North Central division from 20. ls9 10
-. 1s4 In the Western division there has
been Il decrease in the number OF foreign
compared with lSSo or "a Isl in 1890 as
against 80 AS in Iss0. In the South At
lantic and South Central divisions the for
eIgn-born element Is not numerically of
Importance, there being only 3.02l foreign
born 10 each 10000 nat!ve-born IN 1880 in
the South Central division and but 2,1ll in
the South Atlantic division.
In two states in 1ss.o the foreign born
represented more than 80 per cent of the
native born, or -. i49 iorei gn born in North
Dakota. ana So 006 foreign born in Min
nesota, TO each lvoo10 native horn. In
1880 there were five states and territories
IN which the foreign born represented
more than 80 per cent, of the native born,
namely, Nevada. with 70065 foreign born
10 each 100000 native born; Arizona, with
~. go foreign born to each 100 900 native
born: Dakota. with %, lis foreign born IN
each 100, 600 native born, Minnesota, with
- 1fs foreign born 10 each 100 native
born, and California, with 81, us foreign
born TO each Too 900 native born.
The foreign born represented from % to
~ per cent. of the native born in IS states
Is states and territories in $50, Q of the
states and territories in 1880 being in the
western division. while the remainder are
about equally divided between the North
Atlantic and North Central divisions
The foreign born represented from II TO
~ per cent. of the native born III 9 states
in 1890 as compared with IL states and
territories in iss0; from TO 10 per cent. in
l. states and territories in 1870. as against
10 states and territories in 1850, and less