The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-11-18
NATIVE BORN IN
LARGE MAJORITY
Continued from page one.

eign born numbered 1S,9OO,6G3, or So.
land 20.6 per cent. respectively. of the
total population of the country at thai
census. These proportions are practi-
cally the same as those shown by the
census Of 1900. but, as compared with
/ 1890. there has been a slight decrease
from 5i.7 10 53.S per cent-in the
production of native white persons of
Irative parentage. and a considerable
increase-from 1873 TO POO per cent
in the proportion OF native white per-
sons of foreign parentage The latter
class constituted 27.6 per cent of both
1910 and In 1900, as compared with -
per cent i'm 1890.
Natural Rate Of Increase.
Since 1900 the white population as a
whole. as shown by a preliminary
Census Bureau, has increased 22.3 per
cent. as compared with an increase in
the negro population of 11.S per cent
the excess in the percentage of in
crease for the whites being due in part
as then explained, to the large immi-
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same statement that the increase in
the white population, apart from inn
migration. would have been not quite
Il per cent, representing approximate
ly, though not precisely, the natural
rate. Of increase. 1t was further stat
ed that the apparently very marked
falling off i'm the percentage of in
crease of the negro population during
the decade 19OO-191O. as compared with
the preceding decade. is possibly due
to an undcrcount of the negroes in
1890.
II is not possible to determine the
extent TO which the increase in each
element Of the white population is due
to natural increase from excess of
births over deaths.
Disrogarding the question as to the
source Of the increase the native white
population has increased POS per cent
since 1900, as compared with a gain of
231 per cent from 1890 and of 245
per cent from 1850 to 1890; there be-
ing gradual decline i'm the rate of |
increase from decade TO decade.
immigration Is Heavy.
In the foreign born white popula- |
ton, on the other hand, there has been
an increase OF 30.6 per cent since 1900. |
rs compared with a gain Of only II |
per cent from 1890 to 1900 and of very |
nearly 40 per cent (89.D from 1880
TO 1890; these differences arising from
the fluctuations in the number of inn
migrants during the three decades in
question.
The native whites of native parents
md those of foreign born parents in
substantially the same rate
during the last decade. 19O0-1910. but
In the preceding decade, 1S9O-19tO the
rates Of increase for the two elements
differed materially. For the native
white element of native parentagc. the
rate of increase from 1900 To 1910 is
higher than that from
1890 To 1900, namely, 20.9, as against
1873 per cent, whereas for the native
white element Of foreign parentage the
rate of Increase for the last decade Is
very much less than that for the pre-
ceding decade, or 2S.S as against 3G per
cent. The variations in the rates OF
increase for the two decades are large.
ly the result of the difference i'm the
amount of immigration at different
periods, as affecting primarily the
number of native white persons rcp.rt-
ed as having one or both parents for
eign born and ultimately the number of
native white persons reported as hav-
ing both parents native born.