The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-03-19
some CENSUS FACTS
SHOW WHITES TO Be GAINING In
this STATE
They SHOW GOOD GAINS
The Iliteracy Rate in South Carolina
is High, Percentage Being Over
Twenty-Five Per Cent. According
to Advance Bulletin of the Cen
sus Bureau.

to Advance Bulletin of the Cen
sus Bureau.
The composition and characteris-
tics of the population of South Car
olina, as reported at the Thirteenth
Decennial Census are given in an ad
vance bulletin soon to be issued by
Director Durand, of the bureau of
census, department of commerce and
labor. 1t was prepared under the
supervision of VIM. G. Hunt, chief
statistician for population. Statis-
tics of color, nativity, parentage, sex,
state of birth, citizenship, age, illit-
eracy, school attendance, marital con-
dition, and dwellings and families
are presented. They are grouped as
follows:
For the State and counties; for the
two cities of more than $4,000 inhab-
itants; for the two cities of 10000
. to $4,000; for place of $500 to TO-
! 600; and for wards Of Charleston,
the only city of more than $4,000
Inhabitants. 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.
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; CD ma
tive, mixed parentage- e-having one
parent native and the other foreign
born; (4) foreign born.
OF the total population OF South
Carolina, 679,161, or 44.S per cent,
are whites, and S35,S43, or $50 per
cent, negroes. The corresponding
percentages in 1900 we're Ais and
5S.4, respectively, the proportion of
whites having increased during the
decade. In four Of the forty-three
counties the proportion of negroes
exceeds, three-fourths, and N TWEEN
ty-nine other counties it exceeds one
half, the maximum percentage of
negroes being that for Beaufort
County (S6.9).
Native whites of native parentage
constitute 43.7 per cent. of the total
population of the State, and els per
cent. of the white population. Ma
tive whites of foreign or mixed par
entage constitute only 0.S per cent.
of the total population, and foreign
born whites only 0.4 per cent.
OF the urban population, 4s.6 per
cent. are native whites of native par
entage; of the rural, 42.7 per cent.
The corresponding proportions for
native whites of foreign or mixed
parentage are 3.4 and 0.3 per cent.
respectively; for foreign-born whites,
Is and 0.2 per cent. The percentage
Of negroes is 45.2 in the urban pop
ulation and $50 in the rural.
Sex.
In the total population Of the
State there are 751,S42 males and
763,55S females, or 9S.5 males to
100 females. In 1900 the ratio was
eS.4 to 100. Among the whites thA"e
are 1924 males to 100 females;
among the negroes, asa to 1'c.
Among the native whites the ratio
is l02 to 100, as compared with
1898 to 100 for the foreign-born
whites. In the urban population
there are s0.2 males to 100 females,
but in the rural sexes are nearly
equal in number.
State of Birth.
OF the total native population
that is, population born in the United
States-94S per cent. were born IN
South Carolina and SO per cent. out
side the State: of the native white
population, 9.4 per cent. were born
outside the State, and the native ne
gro, is per cent. Persons born out
side the State constitute a larger
proportion of the native population
In urban than in rural communities.
Foreign Nationalities.
/ OF the foreign-born white popula-
ton of South Carolina, persons born
. in Germany represent 2S.S per cent;
Russia, 13; Ireland, Ill; England,
, SO: Italy, 5; Greece. Al; Canada,
AS; all other countries, l9.4 per
cent. OF the total white stock OF
; foreign origin, which includes per-
sons born abroad and also natives
having one or both parents born
abroad, Germany contributed 1872