238 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY I3TH ANNUAL REPORT 



TABLE 22. 

 Comparisons of Rural and Urban Population of Central Florida, 1910. 



"Kg Z 



HcSH 





3i 

 f0 



Whole State 



Urban 



Rural 



Percentages of total population: . 



Whites 



Native white, native parents 



Native white, foreign or mixed parents- 

 Foreign white 



Negroes 



Males 



Percentages of adult male population: 



Whites 



Native white, native parents 



Native white, foreign or mixed parents- 

 Foreign white 



Negroes 



Illiterate 



Per cent of adult males in the following 

 groups : 



Total population 



White population 



Native white, native parents 



Native white, foreign or mixed parents- 

 Foreign whites 



Negroes 



Per cent of illiterates in population over 10: 



Native white 



Foreign white 



Negro 



78.0| 



I9.6\ 



30-9\ 

 21.8| 

 52.31 



60.3 



52.0 



5-3 



3-0 



39.6 



49.1 



62.5 



55-7 



3-4 



3-4 

 37.5 



54.8 



59.5] 



37-M 

 II. i\ 



II-2\ 

 40.5| 

 50.81 



58.8 



55-0 



21 



1-7 

 4L2 



53.1 



76.8| 



6.o\ 



44-3\ 

 23.1| 



6.51 



61.2 



51-4 

 4.6 



5-2 



38.6 



6.4 



59.9 

 50-0 

 2.9 

 7.0 

 40.1 

 13.7 



58.71 

 35-3\ 



6-5\ 

 i6.9\ 

 40.2 



7.7 



51-2 



2-2 



4-1 

 42.5 

 16.8 



30.6| 

 30.1 1 



29.5| 



9.31 



43.6] 



32.41 



30.2 

 30.5 

 29.8 

 26.0 

 52.7 

 29.3 



31.2 

 29.8 

 28.0 

 26.2 

 63.4 

 33.4 



30.8 

 30.7 

 29.6 

 18.1 

 46.8 

 30.9 



27.6 

 26.9 

 25.7 



27.7 

 64.0 

 28.3 



1.6| 

 14.4| 

 12.11 



0.5 1 



4.4| 



12.21 



2.71 

 12.91 

 25.91 



I 



l.li 



11.21 



15.41 



6.4 



8.9 



30.0 



men, white and black.* (The census gives no figures for national- 

 ities in places as small as West Tampa, but the people there are 

 probably mostly of Latin races, as in Ybor City.) And in Tampa 

 proper among the white children between the ages of 6 and 15 

 there are more with one or both parents foreign than with both 

 parents native. 



This large proportion of recent immigrants from countries 

 with lower standards of civilization than ours is not peculiar to 

 Tampa and vicinity by any means, but is common to practically all 

 the larger cities of the United States. It is probably due at least 



*In 1910 only 20.8 per cent of the foreign white men in Tampa and 15.4 per 

 cent of those in West Tampa were naturalized, making the potential voters 

 only 70.3 per cent and 35.8 per cent respectively' of the adult males. 



