The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1913-04-03
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GtWNA v..iNUGS
FOR SOUTH CAROLINA.
HLITERACY LESSENS---WHTTES
GAINING---OTHER INTER-
ESTING DATA.


ing statistics on the composition and
characteristics are given in an ad-
vance bulletin of the 18th census soon
to be issued by E Dana Durand, di-
rector of the census. The bulletin
covers the divisions by color, sex.
place of nativity and comparative lit
eracy and also of illiteracy and age.
1t also takes up the marital condition
of the population over 10 years ofage.
The division by color shows that
since 1900 there has been an appre-
ciable increase in the proportion of
whites, due of course to number
of causes. The result is that, of the
entire l 1,511 ,OO4 people in the State,
the proportion of whites is 44:S
against Al. 9 in 1900. The number OF
whites in 1910 was given as 679, l6l.
Of negroes the number is 835, ,843, q
percentage of 55.2 as against per-
.centage of 5S.4 in 1900.
There are more females than males
in South Carolina the number being
763 .55S against 751, ,842. Among the
whites, however, the proportion is
reversed, there being 1924 white
men for every 100 women.
Of the population of voting age
or over, 49.5 per cent are white and
sos negro.
Only half the population of school
age-from 6 to 20 years-was re-
corded as attending school at all.
As corollary of this the illiteracy
rate is found to be 25.7 per cent.
The census bureau counts in the class
of illiterates, of whom there are 276,-
$50 in South Carolina, any one of
over 10 years who is unable to write,
even though he be able to read. The
rate of illiteracy, however, shows a
decrease from 1900, the percentage
in that year being $50.
This bulletin was prepared under
the supervision of VIM c Hunt, chief
statistician for population. Statistics
of color, nativity, parentage, sex,
State of birth, citizenship, age, ILL
teracy, school attendance, marital
condition, dwellings and families are
presented. They are grouped as fol-
lows: For the States and counties,
for the two cities-of more than 25 ,00C
inhabitants, for the two cities of 10,'
600 to 25, 900. for places of $500 to
10000 and for wards of Charleston,
the only city of more than SO, 900 i'll
habitants. A previous population
bulletin for South Carolina gave the
number of inhabitants by counties
and minor civil divisions. decennial
increase and density of population,
and the proportions urban and rural.
That and the forthcoming bulletin
cover all the principal topics of the
population census except occupations
and ownership of homes.
COLOR AND NATIVITY.
The white population is divided
into four groups: Cd Native. native
parentage-that is, having both par.
ents born in the United States; (2)
native, foreign parentage-having
both parents born abroad; 90 native,
mixed parentage- having one par
;ent native and the other foreign
born; "a foreign born.
Of the total population of South
Carolina, 679,171. or 44.8 per cent,
are whites, and s35, ,S43, or 55.2 per
cent are negroes. The correspond
ing percentages in 1900 were 4l.6
and 5S.4,respeetively, the proportion
of whites having increased during
the decade. In four of the 43 coun-
ties the proportion Of negroesexceeds
,three-fourths, and in 29 other coun-
ties it exceeds one,half, the maxi
mum percentage of negroes being
that for Beaufort county 1861
Native whites of native parentage
constitute 43.7 per cent of the total
population of the State and 81. 5 per