The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-22
COLOR, NATIVITY AND PARENTACE
 OF POPULATION
Instructive Preliminary Statistics Issued by the Census
 Bureau

4 preliminary statement giving for
 each state and territory of continental
 United States the distribution of the
 population according to its, elements
 of race, nativity. and parentage, as
 shown by the returns of the Thirteenth
 Decennial Census, taken as of April
 15, 1910, has been issued by Director
 Durand, of the Bureau of the Census
 Department of Commerce and Labor.
 The figures for continental United
 States as a whole, with considerable i discussion, have previously been made, pubic. The present statement gives
 the figures in detail for each state and territory as 8 matter of general i; information, in@ advance of their ap- pearance in bulletin or report form. i The statistics were prepared under the ! supervision of MT. William c. Hunt, ch1ef statistician for population in the Bureau of the Census, and are sub l ject to later revision.
 The foreign element is proportion ally greatest in the New England and ! Middle Atlantic divisions. white per-
 sons of foreign birth and those of for
 eign parentage but native birth to- | gether constituting in each division one-half or more of the total popula- l tion. These two e'ements also con-
 stitute between 40 and 50 per cent. of Nthe total population of each of the two
 orth Central divisions and of the
 ...ountain and Pacific divisions, re I spectively. The three Southern divis- ions, on the other hand, contain only 1 a comparatively small proportion of white persons either of foreign birth I or of foreign parentage, the popula- tion. of these sections of the country having been affected but little by for l eign immigration and, therefore, con- sisting mainly of native white persons I of native percentage and negroes. II Of the individual states there are 13
 in which the foreign7born whites and l the native whites of foreign parentage together constituted more than half of
 the total population in 1910, namely:
 Minnesota, 71.5 per cent, North Da-
 kota, 706; Rhode Island, 68.7; Wfscon-
 sin, 66.s; Massachusetts, 66; Connecti-
 cut, 63.1; New York, 62.9; New Jersey.
 56.6; Michigan, 55.5; South Dakota, 54.4; Montana, 52.8; Utah, 52.2 ;and 1llin- ois, 51.9.
 On the other hand there are 29 states
 in which more than one-half the total
 population is native white of native lparentage; and there are F states in which more than two-thirds of the to- tai population is of this class. The latter are the following: West Virginia S53 per cent native white of native parentage; Kentucky, S1.4; Oklahoma, 791 Indiana, t7s.S: New Mexico, 7s.1; Tennessee. z57: Missouri, .72.5; Kansas.
 
 eT.s; Texas, 6sS: and Maine, 6s.7. Effect of Immigration.
 |i On account of the large immigra- tion during the past decade, which has mainly gone to the Northern and . Western states, particular interest at : foreign-b born population constitute of ! the total population in those sections { of the country The proportion is the largest in New England, where the
 foreign-born white represents 2.7 per cent. of the total popu ation for 1910 The Middle Atlantic division follows next with 9 per cent of it's population l foreign-born white; then the Pacific division with 2O6 per cent; the East : North Central division with 16.S per cent, and the Mountain division with ! 16.6 per cent. In none of the three Southern divisions did the foreign-born whites constitute more than per | cent. of the population, and in the Eesi South Central division they consti- tuted only 1 per cent.
 The state having the largest percent age of foreign-born white popu' ation is Rhode Island with 32.8 per cent. followed by Massachusetts, 31.2 pei cent, New York, 29.9 per cent; Con necticut 29.5 per cent; and then by two Western states, North Dakota
 27.1 per cent; and Minnesota, 26.2 pel cent.
 
 Comparing the percentages of in-
 crease of the foreign born whites with | that of the native whites (whethel of native or foreign parentage) from 1900 to 1910 in the several divisions, ct appears that in four of the six divis-
 ions of the North and West the for eign-born whites increased more rap idly being especially conspicuous in the Middle Atlantic division, where the foreign-born increased 46.2 per cent
 and the native 19 per cent. There ha: been much less immigration into the West North Central division durinf the past decade than during the ear
 Her decades, and the foreign borr
 whites in that division increased only
 5.3 per cent. from 1900 to 1910 as com pared with Al per cent. for the na
 tive white. In the Mountain divis
 creased somewhat less rapidly thar
 the native white, although their per. centage of increase was in itself large -51.6 In the East and West Soutl Central divisions the native whites in creased more rapidly than the foreign, true in the South Atlantic division where however the foreign borr ! whites are still a very small propor | ton of the population.
 By reason of the above-mentionei l. differences in the percentage of in
 crease as between the foreign -bor1 \ white and the native white. the for a eign-born white constituted a largel II percentage of the total population fr | 1910 than in 1900 in the case of tht New England, Middle Atlantic, Eas | North Central, South Atlantic and Pa E cific divisions, while in the other foul divisions the percentage was either lower in 1910 than in 1900 or was tn. same in both years.
 The native whites of foreign paren tage constitute a large proportion o T the total population in those section. | where he foreign-born whites are uu | merous Tn New England they form | SIS per cent. of the total popu' atior \ In each of the other Northern divis II ions and also in the Pacific division \ they constitute more than one-fourtf | of the total population. Tn the Noun ' tain division they are 23.4 per cent o | the aggregate. In the New England Y and Middle Atlantic division the na, tive whites of Foreign parentage form | ed a larger, in all the other division. | smaller, percentage of the total pop ' ulation in 1910 than in 1900 For Connecticut, the figures are: To tai population, 1,114, 756; white, total 1OsS, ,922: native white, 770,1e5; foreigl |. white ,32s,737; native parents. 395 649 foreign parents. 374, 546; negroes 15, 1J4 all others 650 H-