The times., 1901-06-29
NATIVITY And CITIZENSHIP
A New Series of Bulletins Begun
by the Census Office.

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Important Statistics Regarding
Males of school, voting, and Mill
tia Age in Seven States and Terri
tories -Foreign-Born Population.
The Census Office yesterday is
sued the first Of a series OF bulletins
giving the number of persons of school
age, the males of militia age, the males
OF voting age and the citizenship OF for
eign born males twenty-one years Of age
and over in the States Of Alabama, Ar
kansas. California, Colorado, and Connec-
ticut and the Territories Of Alaska and
Arizona.
Practically one-eighth of the persons OF
school age-from five to twenty years
in Connecticut and one-tenth of those in
Arizona in 1891 were foreign born, While
in Alabama and Arkansas substantially
all were Of foreign birth. In California
/ SO per >ent, in Colorado az per cent and
| in Alaska 3.5 per cent of the persons OF
/ school age were foreign born. The native
white element Of native parentage con-
| stitutes nearly seven-tenths of the whole
number in Arkansas more than three
! ffths in Colorado, more than one-halt IN
Alabama, and not quite one-half in Cali
! persons of school age are of native white
OF foreign parentage and 12.7 per cent are
! foreign white, these two elements con-
/ stituting 577 of the whole number. Col
/ orcd persons of school age in Alabama,
| comprising chiefly those of negro descent,
constitute 46.2 per cent Of all persons of
! school age in that State, while this ele-
| ment constitutes more than fiye-siXths
/ of the whole number in Alaska, represent
| ing principally native Indian children.
In five of the seven States and Terri
! tories considered, the percentage of for
! eign born males is large, ranging from
! 27.9 per cent in Colorado to Ala per cent in
] California. In Alabama and Arkansas, on
! the other hand. practically IS out of every
100 are native born. In none of the seTen
! States and territories is there less than
one-third of the males of. voting age who
. are native whites of native parentage,
/ this element comprising two-thirds of the
I whole number in arkansas, more than
| one-half in Alaska and Colorado, and
/ from 81 to 40 per cent in the remaining
| States and Territories.
The largest proportion of foreign white
| males of voting age are found in Califor-
| MIA and Connecticut and if to this class
are added the native whites of foreign
parentage, the white males of voting age
either of foreign birth or extraction would
constitute more than one-half of all the
potential voters in these two States
These two elements combined also consti-
tute more than two-fifths of all the males
of voting age in Arizona and Colorado.
and nearly three-tenths Of the whole num-
ber in Alaska. In California, Colorado,
and Connecticut. the percentage of illit-
crates among males of voting age is small,
but in the remaining four States and Ter
ritories the illiterates constitute from one
fifth to one-third of the whole number. In
Alabama 33.7 per cent, in Alaska 2S.3 per
cent, in Arizona 23.9 per cent, and in Ar
kansas 20 per cent. These large percen-
tages are due principally TO the presence
among the males of voting age Of a large
number of illiterate persons of negro de-
scent in Alabama anI Arkansas. Of Hitter
ate Chinese and Indians in Alaska, and of
illiterate Indians and foreign whites in
Arizona. In the two. States first named
there is also considerable proportion of
nliterate native white persons, this ele-
ment forming 142 per cent in Alabama
and in Arkansas los per cent of the total
number of voters. In Arizona 3g.9 per
cent of tie foreign white males of voting
age are illiteIs.te, and III Connecticut l56
per cent.
In Alabama 5s7 per cent of the for
eign-born males Of voting age had been
naturalized; in Arkansas 56.8 per cent. in
Colorado 57.4 per cent, in California 500
per cent. in Connecticut 497 per cent, in
Arizona J4S per cent, and I'm Alaska 40 per
cent. The alien element among this class
OF males of voting age in the States and
Territories named is largest in Arizona,
where it represents 49.4 per cent, and
smallest in Arkansas, where it represents
| NOT quite 10 per cent. In California and
| Connecticut the aliens constitute about
! one-thiiu CO all the foreign-born males
1 CT voting age. and in Alaska a little more
| than one-quarter of the total number OF
such males.
OF the aliens Of voting a &c in Arizona.
IS per cent are iiliterate, in Alaska 81 per
/ cent and in Connecticut more than % per
cent. In Arizona illiterates constitute S14
! per cent Of ali foreign-born males who
have taken out their first naturalization
| papers, and this territory also shows the
| largest percentage of iliterates among
! naturafZed males IF voting age.
| Leaving out the foreign born of voting
! age, whose citizenship the census Gunner
ators were unable TO iearn-l.6il in Ala
bama, 2.259 in Arkansas, Z5.99l In Califor-
MIA. Il 7.. in Colorado, and 1866 III Con-
necficu1-the bulletin affords the follow
| ing comparison of the possible voters In
the five States with the number of votes
! actually cast therein at the last Presiden-
! tial election:
Male Eligi- Votes cast
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