Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1881 — NATIVE AND FOREIGN-BORN. [ARTICLE]

NATIVE AND FOREIGN-BORN.

The Central Bureau has issued a bulletin showing the relations of native and foreign* born persons in the several States. As to Illinois, it showß that, of its population of 8,078,769, 2,495,177 are native and 583,592 foreignborn, or about 14,080 foreigners to every 100,000 of population. In no State does the foreign element equal the native, although in many it bears a very large proportion. In the United States as a whole there is a relative decrease of the foreign element. The increase of the foreign element has been in New England, where the growth has been in the direction of manufactures ; in Dakota and Oregon, whose wheat fields have invited settlement; and in Colorado and New Mexico, where extraordinary development of the mining industry has taken place since 1871. The largest number of foreigners is in New Y0rk—1,211,438 ; the next largest in Pennsylvania—587,538; Illinois comes next, and with almost as many; then follow Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan and California. The largest number in any Southern State is in Texas, but in all the South there are not as many foreigners as in Wisconsin alone. Tile following table will exhibit the relative number of natives and foreigners in 1880: States and Territories. Native. Foreign. Out ted States *3,475,506 6,677,360 Alabama. 1,253,121 9,673 Arizona 24,419 16,022 Arkansas 792,269 10,296 California 572,006 292,680 Colorado 154,869 39,780 Connecticut • 492,879 129,804 Dakota..... 83,387 51,793 Delaware 137,182 9,472 District of Columbia 160,523 17,115 Florida. 257,631 9,720 Georgia 1,628,733 10,315 Idaho 22,629 9,982 Illinois 3,495,177 583,592 Indiana ! 1,834,597 143,765 lowa 1,363,132 261,488 Kansas 886,261 109,795 Kentucky 1,589,237 59,471 Louisiana 885,964 54,139 Maine 590,076 68,860 Maryland 851,984 82,648 Massachusetts 1,339,919 443,093 Michigan 1,247,985 888,346 Minnesota 613,107 267,690 Mississippi 1,122,424 9,168 Missouri 1,957,564 211,240 Montana 27,642 11,515 Nebraska 355,043 97,390 Nevada 36,623 75,642 New Hampshire 300,961 46,923 New Jersey, 909,398 221,585 New Mexico. 108,408 9,932 New York 3,872,371 1,211,438 North Carolina 1,396,308 3,670 Ohio 2,803,496 304,743 Oregon...: 144,327 30,419 Pennsylvania........ 3,695,253 587,533 Rhode Island 202,598 73,920 South Carolina 987,981 7,641 Tennessee 1,525,881 16,582 Texas 1,478,058 114,516 Utah 99,974 43,932 Vermont 291,341 40,946 Virginia 1,498,139 14,667 Washington .'. 69,250 15,861 West Virginia 600,214 18,229 Wisconsin 910,063 405,417 Wyoming 14,043 6,845 While the foreign-borns of no State equal the native-borns, yet if the minor children of foreign parents born in this country were subtracted from the native population and added to the foreign it would give the latter the majority in all probability in Minnesota and nearly half in Wisconsin.