32 Henry Gannett — Movements of our Poindation. 



As a rule, the proportion of males has mcreased, owing to the 

 increased proportion of the foreign born, which consists largely 

 of males. In 1890 the jDroportion of males was greater than ever 

 before, due to the fact that the proportion of the foreign born 

 was greater than ever before. 



In the civilized nations of the world generally a different con- 

 dition of things prevails, females being usually slightly in excess 

 of males, as is shown in nearly every country of Europe. In the 

 United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Scandinavia, the Nether- 

 lands and Spain females are at present in excess. 



The sexes are distributed over the country in widely varying 

 proportions, as is shown on the map, plate 10, figure 2. The states 

 colored red are those in Avhich females are in excess of males. 

 They are all located on the Atlantic border and include most 

 of the states of that part of the country. In the Mississippi 

 valley generally males are slightly in excess, while in the 

 newer states and territories of the Rocky mountain region males 

 are largely in excess, owing, of course, to the fact that these are 

 new regions in Avhich society has not yet reached settled con- 

 ditions. 



Race. 



The population of our country is composed, as regards race, 

 of about 55,000,000 whites, 7,500,000 of Africans or mixed bloods, 

 a few hundred thousand Indians, ancj 150,000 Chinese and 

 Japanese. 



The natives of China and Japan are comparatively trifling in 

 number, and since the Chinese exclusion act went into effect im- 

 migration has ceased, and except upon the Pacific coast, where 

 nearly all of them are found, they form too trifling an element 

 to require consideration. 



The Indians, most of whom are confined to the areas classed 

 as unsettled (plate 7, figure 2), will be left to the ethnologists. 



The Africans present us with the spectacle of an inferior race 

 existing in juxtaposition with the whites and, since the early 

 part of the century, unaided by additions to their numbers from 

 abroad. For seventy years this race existed in a state of slavery ; 

 for the last thirty, more or less, in a state of freedom. It is in- 

 teresting to observe the progress of this race and compare it with 

 that of the whites. This is presented in the following tables, the 

 first of which gives the total number of each race, while the next 



