The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-12-23


latter are the following: West Virginia.
1873 per cent native white Of native
parents; Kentucky, STA; Oklahoma.
1911; Indiana, 1873; New Mexico. ISL;
Tennessee, 1911; Missouri, 1876; Kan
sas, ia Arkansas, 6S.4: North Caro-
lima, 673: 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 percentages which the foreign
born population constitute of the total
population i'm those sections of the
country. The proportion is the largest
in New England where the foreign
born white represents 277 percent of
the total population for 1910. The Mid
die Atlantic division follows next with
25 per cent Of it's population foreign
born white; then the Pacific division
with 20.6 per cent; the East North
Central division with 16.S per cent and
the Mountain division with 1876 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 East south Cen
trail division they constituted only l
per cent.
Comparing the percentages of in
crease of the foreign born whites with
that of the native whites (whether of
native or foreign parentage) from 1900
to 1910 i'm several divisions. it appears
that in four Of the six divisions of the
North and West the foreign born
whites increased more rapidly than the
native born whites, the difference being
especially conspicuous in the Middle
Atlantic division. whore the foreign
born increased 46.2 per cent and the
native 10 per cent. There has been
much less immigration into the West
North Central division during the past
decade than during the earlier decades
and the. foreign born whites in that
division increased only SO per cent
from 1900 to 1910, as compared with
l14.1 per cent for the native white. III
the Mountain division also the foreign
horn white increased somewhat less
rapidly than the native white, although
their percentage of increase was in
Itself large-51.6. In the East and
West south Central divisions the ma
Tive whites increased more rapidly thar
the foreign born whites, but the OPP
Iposite was true in the South Atlantic
division, where however. the foreign.
born whites are still a very small pro-
Iportion Of the population.
BY reason of the above mentioned
difference in the percentage of increase
as between the foreign-born white anC
the native white. the foreign borr
white constituted a larger percentage
of the total population in 1910 than il
1900 in the case of the New England
Middle Atlantic, East North Contra
South Atlantic, and Pacific divisions
while in the other four divisions the
percentage was either lower in 1915
than in 1900 or was the same in both
years.
The native whites Of foreign parent.
lage constitute large proportion of the
total population in those sections
where the foreign born whites are nu-
merous. In New England they form
31.3 per cent of the total population. In
each of the other Northern divisions
and also in the Pacific division, they
constitute more than one-fourth of tho
total population. In the Mountain di-
vision they are 23.4 per cent of the ag-
gregate. In the New England and
Middle Atlantic division the native
whites of foreign parentage formed a
larger, in all the other divisions q
smaller. percentage of the total popula-
ton in 1910 than i'm 1900.
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