The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-07-02
STATISTICIAN
TERMS FLORIDA
MAN'SSTATE
uR. HARPER, GEOGRAPHER,
STATES IN SOME WAYS 1T
is AN UNDEVELoPED OR
FRONTIER STATE
(By Associated Presa)

TALLAHASSEE, Fla, July 2
Florida has always been a mans
state. This was the assertion OF
DR.. r. Fl. Harper, local geographel
and statistician, who, after a study
Of the recent 1925 census, found
that males still predominant.
In the whole state in 1925, the
statistician found from the census
figures, males constituted 49.5
per cent of the population under
81, and SPA per cent Of the adult
population.
Florida, DR.. Harper states, is
still in some ways an undeveloped
or frontier state. For that reason,
he adds, the state and most of its
counties have always had. more
men than women, even in the de-
cade or two following the Civil
War, when women were in the ma
jority in the neighboring common
wealths.
Four counties of the state, Leon,
Pinellas, Union and Hamilton, the
statistician discovered in the 1925
census figures, reported a pre-
dominance of females in the white
population. In Bradford, Volusia,
Holmes, Escambia, Orange, Ala
chua, Duval, Jackson, Suwannee,
Monroe, Columbia, Gadsden, St.
Johns and Washington counties, in
the Order named, however, women
constituted 40 per cent of the
white adults.
Males are decidedly in the ma
jority in Hendry, Glades, Dixie and
Collier counties, according 10 the
statistician. Hendry was given
So per cent of men among the
whites; Glades, 1913 per cent;
Dixie, 60.7 per cent, and Collier,
65.9 per cent, or nearly twice as
many men as women.
Continuing, the statistician
analyyzes the situation with re-
gard TO the population of males
and females as follows:
Men Arrive First
"When a new country is being
settled up, men in the prime of
life usually arrive first, and their
mothers, wives, sisters, children,
and so forth, come later, if at all.
"The proportion of women is
nearly always larger in cities than
in rural districts, probably because
the rough work in mines, forests
and on farms is suited to men only,
and there are now so many cleri-
cal occupations open to women in
cities. The four counties mention
ed as containing the largest pro-
portion of men have no cities with
as many as 1000 people, and lum-
bsFing, stock-raising and construc-
ton work of various kinds are
their principal industries at pres
ent.. =
Counting only cities which had
over $500 inhabitants in 1925,
the following had more females
than males in the white population
of all ages, adults not being sep
arated in the census table for
cities, beginning with those having
the greatest excess.
''De Land, Tallahassee, st.
Petersburg, Kissimmee, Gaines
vile, Winter Haven, Orlando, Lake
City, Pensacola, Barlow, st. Aug
Justine. Jacksonville, Plant City,
Lake Worth and 0cala. They are
just one-third of the total cities of
that size.
AT all ages the proportion of
females is nearly everywhere a lit
tie larger among negroes than
among whites, and it happens that
most of the counties which have
over as per cent of women among
The white adults have more negro
women than negro men. And
nearly all the cities just mention
ed, and about half the remaining
one of similar size, or over half
the cities of $500 inhabitants and
over, have more females than
males in the negro population"