Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1893 — INTERESTING FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

INTERESTING FIGURES.

Th« Native Compared xvl.a .he Foreign lenient In Our Pi— illation. The Census Office recently prepared a undo showing in eaoh State and T rritor , hoth tor 187 b and 1890, the proport urns in which 'ho total white popul.i ion is composed of nn'U'c white of j live parents and those of foreign o.rth or having one or both parents foreign t orn. This table is very interest mg and develops some surprising figures. In 1670 about two-thirds or the population were of native extract.on, w die in twenty on s >he proportion of the native element had diminished decidedly, and the ’orelgn element ha . increased over live pe r cent. The distribution of these eleineuts throughout the country is another matter of interest. The following table shows the bereentage o' Cm foreign element, In which term Deluded those of fori igu birth and those iff native birth, one or botii of whoso parents are foreign rs, as distributed through the differen' States and Territories. It is shown by these figures that Ihc'foreign element is confined oht.asi. entire! to the North and West, while to find the real native American wo must go South, North Dako a has but one-fifth of the native elenieut, and Minnesota and Wisconsin one-fourth. Nine-tenths of the Southern States aro of native extraction, the least proportion of foreign born being found in lorth Carolina—t per cent:

North Dakota •rt'.lti Minnesota ; 7#.oj Utah .......m:' Nevada ««(,„• South Dakota t;i. . Rhode Island ~ f, ; i. New York .".'.(IT. Massachusetts ,y.,-. Arizona ‘....'.bt. Alontnna “" .'.fffl&i Michigan a California .sis. . Connecticut ....'til. a Now Jersey ,ri>,u Illinois .....n Wyoming 4 Washington 4.1 Idaho lowa ...A .1 Nebraska .77,7 A-''. Colorado .777; Pennsylvania ... .s;. r Ohio .. ,34. New liampshiie • 3 r.: Oregon 7. ,3,. Vcrnont ,77.7.......... .Hir District of Columbia ."so.. .. Maryland 1 a isas ", : Missouri .77 7..yi\r> Louisiana 7.7'7.7. an .03 Maine ..."..‘I.i.U Delaware 777 ], • Indiana 7.7.7.7.7.7.0. Texas... 7.777.1 • New Mexico., 7....... ,6k 1 lorida ;;; j,7d Oklahoma 77.7 ilv Kentucky 7 7 7777'1L i WeHt Virginia .......77 h.-. Arka! s s 4 | Mississippi 777.7' 1 Alabama 4. , Virginia ,’ 4. Tennessee 77 3 • Boutli Carolina., 3. , Georgia 3./. North Carolina 1.