Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1911-12-27
MORE MALES IN UNITED STATES.
Outnumbcr Females by Over Two aud
u Half Millions.

sex, as shown by the returns Of the
thirteenth diccnnial census, taken as
Of April Is, 1910, has just been is
sued by Director Durand of tho Bu-
reau of Census, Department Of Com
mcrcc and Labor. The statement
also gives the figures for each geo
graphic division. Tho statistics
OF w. G.. Hunt, chief statistician for
population in the Bureau of the Cen
sus, and are subject to later rcvis-
ion.
In the United States as whole
there are 1882, l22 males and A.
Gao, ,lll females, or a proportion Of
LOG males for every 100 females
Considerable interest attaches to
the deviation from numerical equal
ity OF the two sexes hero noted.
While 1t is commonly assumed that
the two sexes are equal Iii number,
the TACT is that there is always a
slight difference between them. Most
Northern European countries show
an excess OF females. The contrary
fact in the United States has been
generally ascribed to the effects of
immigration, as it is we'll known that
among immigrants males predomi-
nate to a large extent. This is not
the full explanation, as can be seen
from a consideration Of the figures
by elements of the population as
shown in Table No. /.
Excess OF Males.
Among the foreign white there are
1892 males for every 100 females,
this proportion rejecting the famil-
lar fact already noted with respect
to the excess Of males among immi-
grants.
But this excess Of males is also
found in the largest single group of
the population OF the United States
the native white of native parents.
or the latter there are 25,229,294
males and 24,259,147 females, or a
proportion Of 104 males to every 100
females. This disparity is due who'll
ly to natural causes; the only other
cause which could affect it is immi-
grafton from the United States, and
such immigration is small and is
certainly not greater in case Of fe-
males than in case Of males.
IN the next group-native white
OF foreign parents-the numbers of
the two sexes are almost equal, with
a slight excess OF females.
Among the negroes, however,
there Is a more noticeable prepon-
dcrance Of females, $50 males to
100 females.
The small group "All other" in
which there are nearly twice as many
males as females is composed Of In
dians and immigrant Asiatics, the
latter being mainly male.
Due in large measure to the ef-
fects Of recent immigratic.., the pro-
portion of males for 100 females in
the population as a whole has risen
slightly between 1900 and 1910,
'iai'eis, lloil lof.f 10 lOo. Ho pro-
portions Of the sexes in the several
nativc-born groups have not changed
materially.
Why There Are More Males.
At birth the number of males al
ways exceeds the number Of females
but male mortality is always greater
| than female. Consequently, through
| the excess Of male deaths, the mum
Der Of females gradually appl caches
that Of males and in tho later years
Of life exceeds it. In countries where
the death rate is high an equality is
reached at comparatively early age
and the subsequent inequality In IA
for OF the females outweighs the pre-
vious inequality in favor Of the males
SO that in the population as a whole
there are more females than males
In the United States there Is gene
| rally a lower death rate than il
Northern European countries, and tn,
difference bctw zen the death rates
OF males and females is not 81
marked. The equality in the mum
Der Of the sexes occurs here at
later age than in European coun
tries, and tho slightly greater NAL
death rate does not overcome tn
Initial advantage which tho male
have at birth. The result is for tn
native white population Of the Uni
ted States generally an excess O
males. For the native white OF for
cign parents, where the condition
! with respect to mortality are not s
, favorable, the result Is that tho tw