The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-06-30

Washington, June 23.-The racial
disposition of the population of the
United States in 1920, announced
tonight by the census bureau, shows
the country %sto contain 94.S22, ,431
white persons, 1O,1l3,O15 negroes,
1859 Indians, 1I1,O35 Japanese,
81, ,686 Chinese and o.4>j crnars Tie
Japanese race exceeds by far the
rate of growth in the last 10 years
of all other classes. Unofficial esti-
mates in the number of Japanese in
the Pacific coast, were borne out in
the official tabulation which revealed
a rate of expansion Of $50 per cent
during the decade OF 19l0-20. Cali
folnia absorbed 3O,596 of the total
38,868 Japanese in this period. Jan
uary 1, 1920, there were 1852 Japa-
ncse in California. The remainder of
the increase was distributed largely in
the states of Washington. wnere l3,=
3S8 make their homes, Oregon 4,151,
and Utah, Colorado, and New York,
with between two and three thousand
each.
Only Is Per Cent Expansion
The white population showed only a
16 per cent expansion for the decade
and the negro 6.5 per cent. Both
the Indian and the Chinese groups
dwindled 8.6 per cent and 1873 per
cent respectively. The growth IN the
white population was considerably
less than the rate for the previous
decade, which was 22.3 per cent. This
decline, the statement said, was due
principally to the marked reduction, in
immigration during the world wal.
An estimate based on the excess OF
immigration over emigration showed
a difference by only a small fraction
Of one per cent from the total whites
enumerated.
The greatest numerical increase in
the white population was shown in
the east, north central division, em-
bracing the states of Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin,
where the increase was 3,O1i,363. In
the south Atlantic and east and west
south central portions the whites
showed a combined increase of $685.
107.
Negro Increase Lowest on Record.
The rate of increase in the negro
population, which was not perceptlbIy
affected by immigration or emigration,
was the lowest on record, according
to the statement.
Evidence of the migration OF the
negro to the north and west was
found in the figures showing nearly
three fourths Of the increase in the
negro population, or 472,418 of the
635,25O gain in these sections. A
growth of only 162,832, or about one
fourth, was reported for the south,
depsite that.s85 per cent of the total
negro racetis still below the Mason
Dixon line. The percentage increase
of the negroes in the west was Dol; !;
in the north 43.3 per cent ana In Ine
south 1.9 per cent.
Michigan with 68,O81 negroes, leo
all states in percentage with ~2ol per
cent. Illinois and Ohio with increases
of 67.1 per cent showed further evil
dence of the northward movement OF
NEGROES.
Pennsylvania negro population
growth for the period was 400 pei
cent, it's black race now exceeding IN
number those of Maryland and Ken
lucky. >,
Decrease in the Indian ~ace in the
10 years period was porbably due IN
part, it was said, to the enumeration
as Indians in 1910 and as whites In
1920, persons have slight traces OF IN
dian blood.
gro population, numbering 1,zOo:5oo
Other States having more than 1OO,-
600 negro inhabitants are: MlssIss12e.
pi, 935, ,164 Alabama, 900:652: Soutn
Carolina, 864,719;. North Caronna
763.4O7; Texas, 741 ,723; LonllsanS ana
7OO257 Virginia, 69O,O17: ArKans1s
472,220; Tennessee: 45l,158; F1"[iua NT
329. .487: Pennsylvania, 284.494; Mary
land. PA, 479; New York 1913, 433;
Ohio, 1876. 1S3; illinois, 182.254: mis-
souri,, 178.241: Oklahoma. l49.4Uf; anc
District of Columbia 1O9,966.