The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-18
PEOPLEOFKANSA
Report on Composition and
Characteristics of Population.
Native Whites of Native Par
entage Compose 71.4 Per Cent.

Washington, March 18.-The first
population bulletin issued few months
ago by the United States census bureau
for Kansas gave the number of inhabi-
tants by counties and minor civil divi-
sions, the decennial increase and the
density of population, and the proper
lions urban and rural A bulletin, just
issued, deals with the composition and
characteristics of the population of
Kansas.
The greater part of this second bulle-
tin consists of five general tables, which
present statistics of color, nativity, par
entage, sex, citizenship, illiteracy,
school attendance, and dwellings and
families. In part, the bulletin says:
OF the total population of Kansas,
IA per cent, are native whites of
native parentage; 292, Jos, or 17.2 per
cent, are native whites of foreign or
mixed parentage; 1876, 100, or per cent,
are foreign-born whites; and $4,000. or
80 per cent, are negroes. The CORES
ponding percentages in 1900 were $50,
1873, Sc, and 3.5, respectively, the pro-
portion of native whites of native par
entage having increased somewhat dur
ing the decade. In most of the 105
counties the proportion of foreign-born
whites is small. the maximum percent
age for this class being that for Ellis
County Q9S). which shows also the
nlSneSI percentage OF naIlVe whites OF
foreign or mixed parentage.
Urban and Rural.
Of the urban population, 70.3 per cent
are native whites of native parentage;
of the rural population. lis per cent.
The corresponding proportions for ma
tive whites of f. -eign mixed par
entage are 14.5 and 1874 per cent, re-
spectively. The percentage of foreign
born whites is TT in the urban popula-
ton and 81 in the rural; the percentage
of negroes is 7.3 in the urban and Is
in the rural.
In the total population of the state
there are SS5, 912 males and S05. 037 fe-
males. or no males to 100 females. In
1900 the ratio was 1925 to 100 Among
native whites the ratio is 1911 to 100,
and among foreign-born whites 1879 to
100. In the urban population there are
1927 males to 100 females, and in the
rural 1875.
OF the native population-thae is,
population born in the United States
52.9 per cent were born in Kansas and
Al per cent outside the state; of the
native white population, 46.7 per cent
were born outside the state; and of the
native negro. SIS per cent. Persons
born outside the state constitute
larger proportion of the native popula-
tion in urban than in rural COM
munities.
OF the foreign-born white population
VI hdISdSs p6TSOIS DOTn III d6TIIdLy O.
represent 25.5 per cent; Russia, lib;
Sweden, 9.S; Austria. SO; England, S3;
Mexico, So; Ireland, 6; Canada, 5.3; /
Scotland, 81; Italy, &c; all other
countries, 1873 per cent. OF the total
white stock of foreign origin, which in /
cIudes persons born abroad and also !
natives having one or both parents
born abroad, Germany contributed 81
per cent; England 90; Ireland, 81; /
Russia, 9; Sweden, SO; Canada 81;
Austria, So; Scotland. 8; Switzerland,
%; Mexico, 2 per cent.
Number of Adult Males.
The total number of males q years
of age and over is sos, 529, representing
30.1 per cent of the population OF
such males, 65.6 per cent are native
whites of native parentage. 1862 per
cent native whites of foreign or mixed
parentage, 14.6 per cent foreign born |
whites, and So per cent negroes. OF |
the 74.24S foreign-born white males of
voting age. 39,145 are naturalized. Males