Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1921-06-29
POPULATION OF UNITED esraTEs
Shown by Racial Groups - Nearly
Ninoty-Fivo Million Whites.

Washington. June 25.,-The racial
composition of the population OF the
United States in 1920, as announced
tonight by the census bureau. shows
the country to contain 94,822.431
white persons, 10,463,O13 negroes,
2i2,959 Indians, 111,025 Japanese,
6l.6SG Chinese and 9.485 others. The
Japanese race exceeds by far the rate
Of 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.
cinc coast, were borne out in tho Of
fetal tabulation, which revealed n
rate Of expansion Of $50 per cent
during the decade Of 10000. Cali
fornia absorbed 30,596 of the total
growth Of 3S,SGS Japanese in THIS
! period. On Jan. |, 1920, there were
7l.952 japanese in California. The
remainder Of the increase was dis
tributcd largely in the State Of Wash
ington, where l7,3SS make their per-
manent homes. Oregon has l.l5l,
Utah. Colorado and New York have
between two and three thousand
each.
The white population showed only
6 per cent expansion for the doc
| adc. and the negro G.5 per cent. Bo;h
! the Indian and Chinese groups dwin-
died Sc per cent and 1873 per ccat
! respectively. The growth in the white
population was considerably less thnn
the rate for the previous decade
which was 22.3 per cent. This de-
cline. the statement said, was dun
principally to the marked reduction
in immigration during the war. An
estimate based on the excess Of births
over deaths and on the excess OF i'm
migration over emigration showed a
difference by only small fraction OF
] per cent from the total whites emu
merated
The greatest numerical increase in
the white population was shown in
the East, North and Central diyi-
Sions, embracing the States OF Ohio.
indiana. Illinois, Michigan and Wis
consin, where the increase was g.
OF .663. In the South Atlantic and
East and West and South Central
portions the whites proved a normal
increase of 3.5S6,lO7.
The rate Of increase in the negro
population, which was not percepti-
bly, affected by immigration or emf
grafton. was the lowest on record,
according to the statemnt.
Evidence of the emigration Of the
negro to the North and Wesl was
found In the figures showing nearly
three-fourths of the increase in the
negro population, or 472,41S Of the
635.250 gain, in these sections.
growth Of only 162.s32, or about one
fourth. was reported for the South,
despite the fact that S5 per cent OF
the total negro population is still be-
low the Mason-Dixon line. The per-
centage increase Of the negroes in the
West was 55.1; in the North 1873 per
cent, and in the South 1876 per cent.
Michigan, with 60,0S2 negroes, led
all States in percentage Of increase,
with 25l per cent. Illinois and Ohio,
with increases Of Ell per cent, show
ed further evidence Of the Northward
movement Of negroes. Pennsylvania
negro population growth was 46.7
per cent
Decrease in the Indian race in the
ten-year period was probably due in
part, it was said, to the enumeration
as Indians, in 1910 and as whites in
1920. Of persons having only slight
traces OF Indian blood.
Georgia leads with the largest ne
gro population, numbering l.206.365.
Other States which have more than
100000 negro inhabitants are:
Mississippi ...... .935,1S4
AlaDama ....... .90O.652
South Carolina SG3,7f9
North Carolina .1G3.4O7
leAaS ... .....7Il,723