The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-06-24


Tn. Bureau Of Census. Department
OF Commerce. today Issued a prelImi.
nary statement giving the compost
ton Of the population Of the United
States, according 10 color of race.
as shown by the census taken NJ u
January L. 1920.
Distribution by Color or Race
The total population Of the United
states iO5,7iO.G2O. comprises ei,s22,.
isi white persons, io,ies.ol3 Ne
groes, 2i2,9j9 Indians. iii,025 Jap
anese. Ci,es0 Chinese. 5.coa Fllipinos,
2.5O5 HIndus, 1890 Koreans. and
l47 others (slamese. lIawaIans. Ma.
lays, MaorIs. and samoansl. The cor.
responding figures for 1910 were as
follows: Si,73i,967 phite persons.
9.2S7,7G3 uegrocs. 2e5.Gs3 Indians.
7l.i57 Japanese. 1881 Chinese. 1870
fIliplnos. 2.5i5 HInduS. iG2 Koreans.
and $ others tMnoris.) The rates OF
Increase for the principal races dur
ing the decade we're: Total popula.
tion. Ii.s percent: white 16 percent;
Negro, G.5 per cent; Japanese, $50
per cent. The Indian population de.
creased ~ S.G per cent and the Chi.
nese population by 1873 per cent
White Population
The rate Of increase In the white
population during the recent decade.
1G per cent. Is considerably less
than the corresponding rate for the
period of l9i0-l920. which was 22.3
per cent. This decline Is accounted
for mainly by the great reduction In
the volume of immigration during
the period OF the World War. An es.
innate based on the excess OF births
over deaths and on the excess OF
immigration over emigration yields
a total differing by only small
fraction of per cent from the total
white population enumerated.
Negro Population
The rate OF increase in the Negro
which is not perceptibly
by immigration of emigra-
tion, is by far the lowest on record.
This element OF the population has
been growing at a rapidly diminish
ing rate during the past 30 years,
its percentage of increase having de-
clined from IS per cent between
1890 and 1900 to 11.2 per cent dur
Ing the following decade and 6.5 per
cent during the 10 years ended Jan
nary /, 1920. Such data as are avail
able in regard TO birth and death
rates among the Negroes indicate
that the birth rate has decreased
since 1900. while the
death rate has not changed greatly.
The following statement shows the
Negro population in 1920 and 1910, |
with the rates of icrease during the |
past two decades, for the South, the
North, and the West The line be-
tween the North and South follows
the northern boundaries of Dele
ware, Maryland, West Virginia, Ken
lucky, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. The
West is that part of the country ly-
ing west of the eastern limits M
Wyoming Colorado and
New Mexico.
The total numerical increase in the
Negro population during the decade
was 6S5,25O. OF this increase, 472,41S,
or nearly three-fourths, took place in !
the North and West, while only 1872
S32, or about one-fourth, was report
ed for the South despite the fact
that about 8 per cent Of the total
Negro Spopulation is still found in
The South.
without exception, the northern
and western states which border on
he South reported greater rates Of
Increase in Negro population than
jhe average for the country, and in :
several of these states the rates
we're very large-for example, in H.
inois GIL per cent; in Ohio, GIL per
,ent and in Pennsylvania, 46.7 per
,ent The last mentioned state has
| larger Negro population than
either Maryland or KentuckY The
greatest rate Of growth in Negro
population reported by any state
having more than 10000 Negro in
labitants appears for Michigan, PSI