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ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1021 . 



REGIONAL DIFFERENCES. 



Attention was given from the start of the studies to possible indi- 

 cation of regional differences in pigmentation, especially between the 

 North and the South ; but nothing striking or definite became mani- 

 fest in this direction. What differences do exist became apparent 

 only after the data were reduced to percentages. The results are 

 shown in the following table : 



Regional distribution of hair color in the Old Americans. 



MALES. 



Region. 



New England ' (65) 



Middle East and mixed (449) 



South (District of Columbia and southward) (369). 

 Appalachians (Tennessee and neighboring) (126) . . 



Lights 



(lights 



proper 



and 



light 



brown). 



26.1 

 22.4 

 22.3 

 12.7 



Medium. 



Darks 

 (dark to 

 black). 



55.4 

 45.2 

 48 

 69. S 



2 16.9 

 29.6 

 27.1 

 15.1 



Reds. 



1.5 



2.7 

 2.7 

 2.4 



FEMALES. 



New England (41) . . . 

 East and mixed (339) . 

 South (534) 



5.6 

 4.9 



BOTH SEXES. 



Blonds 

 and mod- 

 erately 

 light. 



Medium. 



Dark 



(to 



black). 



Medium 



and 



dark. 



Red. 



New England (106) 



Middle east and mixed (788) 

 South (903) 



32.6 

 21.7 

 21.1 



44.8 

 41.3 



47.6 



21.9 

 32.9 



27.6 



(66.7) 

 (74.2) 

 (75.2) 



0.7 

 4.1 

 3.7 



1 All American ancestors of the subject lived in the regions here given, not merely the individual recorded 

 1 No blacks. 



The regional differences in hair color, it can be seen from the 

 above figures, are not very material, yet there are differences, and in 

 a measure, as to between North and South, they bear out the common 

 notion. In both sexes among the " Yankees " there is a larger pro- 

 portion of lights and a somewhat smaller percentage of darks than 

 in the South. The hair among the Old Americans of the South may 

 therefore be said to be less frequently blond and somewhat more 

 frequently dark than that of the same class of the population in the 

 New England region. But the Old Americans of the Middle East 

 and of mixed-State parentage agree very closely with those of far- 

 ther South, showing, if anything, even a good trace more of darks, 

 though if we take the mediums and darks together the proportions 



