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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,
