New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-06-24
Japanese Gain
33,868 i'm Ten
Years In VI. s.
Lead ALI Races i'm Country
With $40 Growth; 3d.
500 Increase i'm Califor-
mia, Which Has 1852
1888 in Washington
Nations White Population
is o4,822,43l Negroes
Next With l0,463, 0I3

WASHINGTON, June 23.-The racial
composition Of the population of the
United States in 1920, as announced to-
night by the Census Bureau, shows
the country to contain 94,822,431 white
persons, 10.463,o13 negroes, 242. $50 In
dians, 111,025 japanese, 1856 Chinese
and 9,435 others. The japanese race
exceeded by far the rate CT growth in
the last ten years of all other classes.
Unofficial estimates of the increase
in the number of Japanese in the
United States, particularly on the Pa
cifc Coast, were borne out in the Off
cial tabulation, which revealed rate
of expansion of $40 per cent during
the decade OF 10000 California alb
sorbed 30,596 of the total growth OF
1865 Japanese in this period. On
January l, 1920, there were 1852 Jap
anese in California. The remainder
of the increase was distributed largely
in the states of Washington, where
1888 now make their home; Oregon,
4,151, and Utah, Colorado and New
York, with between 1000 and 5000
each.
WINES Increase l6 Per Cent
The white population showed only a
16 per cent expansion for the decade.
and the negro SIS per cent. Both the
Indian and Chinese groups dwindled
8.6 per cent and 1873 per cent, respec
lively. The growth in the white popu-
| lation 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 War. An estimate
based on the excess of births over
deaths and on the excess of immigra-
ton over emigration showed a differ
ence by only small fraction of ] per
cent of the total whites enumerated
The greatest numerical increase in
/ the white population was shown in The
eastern north central division, en-
| bracing the states of Ohio, Indiana
Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin,
where the increase was 3,011,363 The
middle Atlantic states division had q
growth for the decade of 2,761 sos. In
the south Atlantic and east and west
south central portions the whites
showed an increase of 3,586,107.
Negro Increase Loves. on Record
The rate of increase in the negro
population, which was not perceptibly
affected by immigration or emigration
was the lowest on record.
! Evidence of the migration of the
negro to the North and West was found
! in the figures showing nearly three
fonrths of the increase in the negro
population, or 472,418 of the 635 250
/ gain, in these sections. A growth Of
only 162,S3z, or about one-fourth, was
reported for the South, despite the fact
| that 85 per cent OF the total negro race
| is still below the Mason-Dixon line
The percentage increase of negroes IL
| the West was 55.1. in the North 43
| per cent, and in the South 10 PEP cent
Decrease in the Indian rece lin the
last ten-year period was probably due
in part, it was said, to the enumeration
as Indians in 1910 and as whites II
1920 of persons having only slight
traces Of Indian blood. Of the tota
dee crease in the Indian race, 22,724, by
far the greater part, 1886, was in Ok
| lahoma alone.