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TABLE I— Continued

Nationalities and Races

Posi- tions

1890

Number Percentage

Number

Percentage

Hungarians.. Bohemians. . Roumanians.

All other whites*

Turks

Europeans not specified.

Born at sea

Other countries

Atlantic Islands

Africa

Civilized Yellow

Chinese

Japanese

Asian (not specified) .

Civilized Dark

Civilized Negroes. . . Civilized Indians. . .

Hindoos

Sandwich Islanders. Pacific Islanders

Uncivilized and otherwise

not specified

Uncivilized Indians

62,433 118,106

32,376 1,839

12,579

5,533

479

9.539

2,207

111,240

106,688

2,292

2,260

7,553,794

7,488,676

58,806

2,143

1,304

2,065

189,447 189,447

.0005

145,802

156,991

15,041

35,319 9,933 2,263 8,229 2,558 9,784 2,552

118,812 81,827

25,077 11,908

^,869,342

^,749,735

107,706

2,050

.0004

,ri6

.003

2,049

129,518 129,518

Totals.

Sub-homogeneity

Sub-homogeneity from percentages

62,959,551 1-579 •01579

76,394,824 1-552 •01552

• The group "All Other Whites" as here made up should in strict accuracy be dbtributed. It should

include Turks, Persians, Armenians, African whites, not descended from European stock, etc., while "Europeans not Specified," "Bom at Sea," and irom "Atlantic Islands," should be assigned to preced- ing groups. The labor of ascertaining what those assig^nments should be was not worth while, the entire group constituting only .0004 per cent, of our total population.

departure are the positions of the medians and the quartiles. Notwithstanding the magnitude of the immigration which we have received within the last twenty-five years, nearly three- fourths of the entire population of continental United States is native-born, and more than one-half is native-born of native parents. Nearly 80 per cent, has been English-speaking from birth. These facts of course are disclosed by the census data independently of the marking-scale here used. But the scale and

the plotted curves reveal one tendency that, without their aid,