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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.
and in the order named. In 1890 the total foreign population numbered 9,249,547, while the total number having foreign-born parents, but who themselves were born in this country, was 11,503,075, making a total of foreign-born and children of foreign-born parents of 20,753,222—that is, one third of the total population of the United States consists of people born in foreign coun-
Native and Foreign-born Population, 1880.
States and Territories. | Total population. | Native-born population. |
Foreign-born population. |
Per cent of native-born of total population. | Per cent of foreign-born of total population. |
Alabama | 1,262,505 | 1,252,771 | 9,734 | 99·23 | 0·77 |
Arizona | 40,440 | 24,391 | 16,049 | 60·31 | 39·69 |
Arkansas | 802,525 | 792,175 | 10,350 | 98·71 | 1·29 |
California | 864,694 | 571,820 | 292,874 | 66·13 | 33·87 |
Colorado | 194,327 | 154,537 | 39,790 | 79·52 | 20·48 |
Connecticut | 622,700 | 492,708 | 129,992 | 79·12 | 20·88 |
Dakota | 135,177 | 83,382 | 51,795 | 61·68 | 38·32 |
Delaware | 146,608 | 137,140 | 9,468 | 93·54 | 6·46 |
District of Columbia | 177,624 | 160,502 | 17,122 | 90·36 | 9·64 |
Florida | 269,493 | 259,584 | 9,909 | 96·32 | 3·68 |
Georgia | 1,542,180 | 1,531,616 | 10,564 | 99·31 | 0·69 |
Idaho | 32,610 | 22,636 | 9,974 | 69·41 | 30·59 |
Illinois | 3,077,871 | 2,494,295 | 583,576 | 81·04 | 18·96 |
Indiana | 1,978,301 | 1,834,123 | 144,178 | 92·71 | 7·29 |
Iowa | 1,624,615 | 1,362,965 | 261,650 | 83·89 | 16·11 |
Kansas | 996,096 | 886,010 | 110,086 | 88·95 | 11·05 |
Kentucky | 1,648,690 | 1,589,173 | 59,517 | 96·39 | 3·61 |
Louisiana | 939,946 | 885,800 | 54,146 | 94·24 | 5·76 |
Maine | 648,936 | 590,053 | 58,883 | 90·93 | 9·07 |
Maryland | 934,943 | 852,137 | 82,806 | 91·14 | 8·86 |
Massachusetts | 1,783,085 | 1,339,594 | 443,491 | 75·13 | 24·87 |
Michigan | 1,636,937 | 1,248,429 | 388,508 | 76·27 | 23·73 |
Minnesota | 780,773 | 513,097 | 267,676 | 65·72 | 34·28 |
Mississippi | 1,131,597 | 1,122,388 | 9,209 | 99·19 | 0·81 |
Missouri | 2,168,380 | 1,956,802 | 211,578 | 90·24 | 9·76 |
Montana | 39,159 | 27,638 | 11,521 | 70·58 | 29·42 |
Nebraska | 452,402 | 354,988 | 97,414 | 78·47 | 21·53 |
Nevada | 62,266 | 36,613 | 25,653 | 58·80 | 41·20 |
New Hampshire | 346,991 | 300,697 | 46,294 | 86·66 | 13·34 |
New Jersey | 1,131,116 | 909,416 | 221,700 | 80·40 | 19·60 |
New Mexico | 119,565 | 111,514 | 8,051 | 93·27 | 6·73 |
New York | 5,082,871 | 3,871,492 | 1,211,379 | 76·17 | 23·83 |
North Carolina | 1,399,750 | 1,396,008 | 3,742 | 99·73 | 0·27 |
Ohio | 3,198,062 | 2,803,119 | 394,943 | 87·65 | 12·35 |
Oregon | 174,768 | 144,265 | 30,503 | 82·55 | 17·45 |
Pennsylvania | 4,282,891 | 3,695,062 | 587,829 | 86·27 | 13·73 |
Rhode Island | 276,531 | 202,538 | 78,993 | 73·24 | 26·76 |
South Carolina | 995,577 | 987,891 | 7,686 | 99·23 | 0·77 |
Tennessee | 1,542,359 | 1,525,657 | 16,702 | 98·92 | 1·08 |
Texas | 1,591,749 | 1,477,133 | 114,616 | 92·80 | 7·20 |
Utah | 143,963 | 99,969 | 43,994 | 69·44 | 30·56 |
Vermont | 332,286 | 291,327 | 40,959 | 87·67 | 12·33 |
Virginia | 1,512,565 | 1,497,869 | 14,696 | 99·03 | 0·97 |
Washington | 75,116 | 59,313 | 15,803 | 78·96 | 21·04 |
West Virginia | 618,457 | 600,192 | 18,265 | 97·05 | 2·95 |
Wisconsin | 1,315,497 | 910,072 | 405,425 | 69·18 | 30·82 |
Wyoming | 20,789 | 14,939 | 5,850 | 71·86 | 28·14 |
United States | 50,155,783 | 43,475,840 | 6,679,943 | 86·68 | 13·32 |