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abnormally rapid growth of the population of Gary with respect 

 to the urban population of the county, the state, and the nation. 



Table 2 shows the proportions by color and nativity of the 

 population of Gary, of Lake county, of Indiana, and of the United 



2. PROPORTIONS BY COLOR AND NATIVITY OF THE POPULA- 

 TION OF GARY, OF LAKE COUNTY, OF INDIANA, 

 AND OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1910 15 





Gary 

 Per cent 



Lake 

 County 

 Per cent 



Indiana 

 Per cent 



United 

 States 

 Per cent 



Native white of native parentage .... 



26.7 



31.1 



78.9 



53.8 



Native white of foreign or mixed 













21.9 



31.5 



13.0 



20.5 



Foreign born white 



49.1 



36.7 



5.9 



14.5 



Negro 



2.3 



0.6 



2.2 



10.7 



Other 





0.1 





0.5 









States for the year 1910. The population of Gary is abnormal 

 in color and nativity composition in its unduly large proportion 

 of foreign born and of native born of foreign or mixed parentage. 



The population of Gary has come from all parts of the United 

 States and from many foreign countries. In determining nation- 

 alities in the population of Gary, the United States figures are 

 not satisfactory because they give only country of birth, and 

 this, where either the individual or both his parents were born 

 in foreign countries. Table 3a shows by number and per cent 

 the country of birth of the foreign born in Gary, in Indiana, and 

 in the United States. Table 3b shows by number and per cent 

 the country of birth of the parents of native born children of 

 foreign parentage in Gary, in Indiana, and in the United States. 

 From these tables it will be seen that the foreign born population 

 of Gary is abnormal with respect to Indiana and the United 

 States in its high proportion of persons born in the countries of 

 the New Immigration, and the low proportion of those born in 

 the countries of the Old Immigration; the native born population 

 of foreign parentage is abnormal in its generally high proportion 

 of persons whose parents were born in the countries of the New 

 Immigration and correspondingly low proportion of those whose 

 parents were born in the countries of the Old Immigration. In 

 1908 a census was taken by the Gary Land Company of the total 

 population of Gary by nationality. The result of this census, 



»U.S Census, 1910, Vol. I, p. 1033; Vol. II, pp. 568-548. 



