The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-22
COLOR AND RACE
OF POPULATION
Preliminary Statistics Issued BY the
Census Bureau.

Washington, ID. c., Dec. PA pre-
liminary statement giving for each
state and territory of continental
United States the distribution of the
population according to its elements of
race, naticity, and parentage as shown
by the returns of the thirteenth de-
cennial census, taken as of April Is,
1910, was issued today by Director
Durand, of the bureau of the census,
department of commerce and labor.
The figures for continental United
States as 2 whole, with considerable
discussion nave previously been made
public. TIE present statement gives
the figures in detail for each state and
territory as a matter of general in
formation, in advance of their appear
ance in bulletin or report form. The
statistics were prepared under the SUI
pervision of Mr.. William G. Hunt, chief
statistician for population in the bu-
reau of the census, and are subject to
later revision.
In New England And Middle Atlantic
States.
The foreign element is proportion
ally greatest in the New York and
middle atlantic divisions, white per-
sons of foreign birth and those of
foreign parentage but native birth to-
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one-half or more of the total popula-
ton. These two elements also consti-
tute between 40 and so per cent of the
total population of each of the two
north central divisions and of the
mountain and Pacific divisions, re-
spectively. The three southern divi-
sions, on the other hand, contain only
a comparatively small proportion of
white persons either of foreign birth
or of foreign parentage, the popula-
ton of these sections of the country
having been affected but little by for
eign immigration and, therefore, con-
sisting mainly of native white persons
of native parentage and negroes.
OF the individual states there are
l3 in which the foreign-bofn whites
and the native whites of foreign paren-
tage together constituted more than
half of the total population in 1910,
namely: Minnesota, 71.5 per cent;
North Dakota, 70.6; Rhode Island,
6S.7; Wisconsin, 66.S; Massachusetts,
sc; Connecticut, 631; New York, 62.9;
New Jersey, $3.50; Michigan, 55.5;
South Dakota 544; Montana, 52.S;
Utah, 52.2; and Illinois, 51.9.
On the other hand there are 29
states in which more than one-half the
total population is native white of ma
tive parentage; and there are IL states
in which more than two-thirds of the
total population is Of this class. The
latter are the following: West Vir-
ginia, S5.3 per cent native white of ma
tive parents; Kentucky, S1.4; Okla
homa, 791 Indiana, 78.9; New Mex
ico, 1911; Tennessee, 75.7; Missouri,
1875; Kansas, ia; Arkansas, 6S.4;
North Carolina, 67.S; Texas, 66s; and
Maine, 66.7.
Effect OF immigration.
On account of the large immigration
during the past decade, which has
mainly gone to the northern and west
ern states, particular interest attaches
to the per centages which the foreign
born population constitute of the total
population in those sections of the
countdy. The proportion is the larg-
sss Ia New England, where the for
elgn-Dorn white represents 27.7 per
cent of the total population for 1910.
The middle Atlantic division follows
next with Is per cent of its population
foreign-born white; then the Pacific
division with 20.6 per cent; the east
north central division with 1868 per
cent, and the mountain division with
loo per cent. In none of the three
southern divisions did the foreign-born
whites constitute more than 4 per cent
of the population, and in the east south
central division they constituted only
per cent.
The state having the largest per-
centage of foreign-born white popula-
tion is Rhode Island with 1878 per cent,
followed by Massachusetts, S1.S per
cent, followed by Massachusetts,, 31.2
per cent; New York, 29.9 per cent;
Connecticut, 29.5 per cent; and then
by two western states, North Dakota,
27.1 per cent: and Minnesota, 26.2 per
cent.
Rapid Increase of Foreign-Born Whites
Comparing the percentages of in
crease of the foreign-bon whites with
that of the native. whites (whether of
native or foreign parentage) from 1900
to 1910 in the several divisions, it ap-
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