Our country and its resources; . 26 OVR COUNTRY AND ITS RESOURCES tuted 1 (;..» per cent of the whitepopulation and per cent of thetotal population. Native whites of native paren-tage in 1910 numbered 49,488,575,constituting per cent of thewhite population and per centof the total population. Nativewhites of foreign parentage per cent of the white popula-tion and those of mixed parentage7.:; per cent, the corresponding per-centages based on the total popula-tion being 11 and i, respectively. crease of the white population. Thenative white population per
Our country and its resources; . 26 OVR COUNTRY AND ITS RESOURCES tuted 1 (;..» per cent of the whitepopulation and per cent of thetotal population. Native whites of native paren-tage in 1910 numbered 49,488,575,constituting per cent of thewhite population and per centof the total population. Nativewhites of foreign parentage per cent of the white popula-tion and those of mixed parentage7.:; per cent, the corresponding per-centages based on the total popula-tion being 11 and i, respectively. crease of the white population. Thenative white population per cent and the foreign-bornwhite per cent. The increaseof Degrees and Indians, since theircumbers is only slightly affected byimmigration, or emigration, is essen-tially a natural increase. BLACK AND MULATTO POPULATION Of the 9,827,763 negroes enumer-ated in L910, were returnedas black and 2,050,686 as mulatto,or per cent. In 1850 the per-. I I Lro thin 1 per cenl,m 110 5 pcrctD .V777* b to 12J per Cent. ESS 121 t25 J- r cent. (ffiB 25 tO 17) IKTCCtlt. HZ 37) to 40 per cent. ?D) SO pcf txnt and Tb« heavy line* {—) show Rfographic divisions. PER CENT OF NEGROES IN TOTAL POPULATION, BY STATES Of the total increase of 15,977,691in the population of the country be-tween 1900 and 1910, the whites con-tributed 14,922,761, the negroes 993,-769, and other races 61,161. TheIncrease in the native populationwas 12,803,081, and thai in the for-eign born, 3,171,610, or aboul one-fifth of the lotal increase. The percentage of increase for the whites. •__.::. was a little less than twice as high as that for the negroes, This difference is partly , to the direct or indirect effect of Immigration upon the in centage of mulattoes was ithad advanced but little in is7o, be-ing only 12 per cent, hut since 1870the proportion of mulattoes in thetotal negro population appears tohave increased materially, re
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