The People of the United States 



389 



States proper is given in the following 

 table : 



The Indians also have decreased dur- 

 ing the decade, but not nearly as rapidl}^ 

 as has been commonly supposed. There 

 are 6,847 ^^ss than in 1890, a loss of only 

 2.5 per cent. About one half of these 

 Indians are taxed. The census shows 

 an increase in the number of Indians in 

 Alaska of 4,182, but probably the in- 

 creased figures are because of the more 

 careful enumeration that was possible. 

 The number of Indians in the United 

 States, exclusive of Alaska, is now 

 somewhat less than a quarter of a 

 million — 237,196 as against 248,253 in 

 1890. In Alaska itself there are 29,536 

 Indians. 



DISTRIBUTION OF Mx\LES AND 

 FEMALES 



The number of men and women 

 throughout the United States was more 

 evenly balanced in 1900 than ten 3^ears 

 before. Each of the states of the West- 

 ern division shows a larger proportion 

 of females and a smaller proportion of 

 males than in 1890. On the other hand, 

 in the North Atlantic and South Atlan- 

 tic divisions, considered as a whole, 

 where ten years ago there was a slightly 

 larger proportion of females, there was in 



1900 an equal proportion of both sexes. 

 There are eleven states, including the 

 District of Columbia, in which there 

 are more females than males. Each of 

 these states is situated on the Atlantic 

 coast. 



Massachusetts has the largest majority 

 of females, having 70,398 more women 

 than men. New York has a female ma- 

 jority of 39,334 ;* the District of Colum- 

 bia, 14,710; North Carolina, 16,456 ; 

 South Carolina, 10,526, and Georgia, 

 9,929. Maine, Vermont, and Connecti- 

 cut have a majority of the male sex. In 

 Pennsylvania there are 106,967 more 

 males, due principally to the large ele- 

 ment of the foreign-born working in the 

 mining districts. In all the states of 

 the North Central, South Central, and 

 Western divisions there is a majority of 

 the males. The largest excess of males 

 is in Montana, Wyoming, and Nevada, 

 in which states the males constitute 

 more than 60 per cent of the entire pop- 

 ulation. 



The negro element is the only ele- 

 ment of the population in which there 

 are more females than males, there be- 

 ing 54,347 more females of negro de- 

 scent than males. It is interesting to 

 note that the native whites of native 

 parents have the largest proportion of 

 males to females — 51 per cent males and 

 49 per cent females. The native whites 

 of foreign parents are very evenly bal- 

 anced as to sex. Naturally there is a 

 large excess of males in the foreign-born 

 element, while six sevenths of the Chi- 

 nese and two thirds of the Japanese are 

 males. 



G. H. G. 



* The excess in this State is confined to na- 

 tive whites of native and foreign parentage, 

 the foreign whites, Chinese, Japanese, and In- 

 dians showing an excess of males. 



