44 Henry Gannett — Movements of our Population. 



diagram at the bottom shows the present status of the population 

 as regards colored, native and foreign blood, classifying the last 

 by the leading nationalities. 



From this it appears that the present composition of the pop- 

 ulation is somewhat as follows : 



Colored 7,500,000 



White of native extraction ' 30,000,000 



AViiite of foreign extraction 25,000,000 



The principal elements of the latter are : 



British 4,000,000 



Irish 6,500,000 



German '. , 6,800,000 



Swedes and Norwegians 1,000,000 



Hungarians 500,000 



Italians 500,000 



Canadians 1,600,000 



The remainder of the 25,000,000 are distributed among vari- 

 ous nationalities in small numbers. The white element of native 

 extraction is apparently in the minority today in this country, 

 being exceeded in number by the sum of the foreign element and 

 the colored. British blood is, however, still largely in the as- 

 cendant, for if we add to the white native element the 4,000,000 of 

 British and 6,500,000 of Irish we get 40,500,000, about two-thirds 

 of the entire population and three-fourths of the entire white 

 population. 



