N.H N.Y. MASS. CONN PA. OHIO UTAH. ILL. 4 IND. 26 MD COL. 41 W.VA DEL.1 DC. 44 KAN. MO. 9 VA. 57 54 S.c. MISS. ALA. GA. DIAGRAM No. 1.-Excess of native males, in thousands, in certain States and Territories, N.H N.Y. MICH, 58 MASS: CONN PA. ILL. IND. OHIO 37 114 12 W.VA KY. VA. 24 DEL DC-11 UTAH. COL. FLA. DIAGRAM No. 2.-Excess of native females, in thousands, in certain States. MASS: CONN PA. ILL. IND. OHIO MD W.VA DEL DC. VA.. KY. TENN. N.C. S.c. DIAGRAM No. 4.-Excess of foreign females, in thousands, in certain States. FLA. TABLE 1 FROM THE CENSUS OF 1880. The area of the Union, excluding Alaska and the Indian Territory, is estimated by the Census authorities to be 2,900,170 square miles, the area of Alaska is about 531,409 square miles and that of the Indian Territory is 69,830 square miles, or an aggregate for the whole country of 3,501,409 square miles. In size and in population we are the fourth nation of the world. Probably more than half the English-speaking people of the earth live in the United States. The native population of the country in 1880, excluding the two unorganized Territories already mentioned, was 43,475,840; the foreign-born population numbered 6,679,943. The native males exceeded the native females by more than 300,000; the foreign-born males exceeded the foreign-born females nearly 600,000; the exact majority of all males over all females was 881,857. The white population numbered 43,402,979; the colored population, 6,580,793; the Chinese and Japanese, 105,613; and the Indians paying taxes, 66,407.1 Of the colored population, 14,107 were born in other countries; of the Chinese and Japanese, 1,186 were natives; and 1,820 of the civilized Indians were foreign-born. An examination of the table will show that the females exceeded the males in the following States: Thus it may be said in general terms that the country east of the river Ohio and the lower Mississippi has a slight excess of females and that the rest of the country shows an excess of males. The colored population is mostly south of the Missouri, the Ohio, and the Potomac, and the foreign-born population almost entirely north of those rivers. Indeed, there has been an actual decrease since 1870 of foreign-born inhabitants in Vermont, Missouri, Maryland, Kentucky, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. 1 The whole Indian population is about 289,000, according to recent authorities. |