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population of Oklahoma was 398,331. 1 While it has increased 
greatly in the years succeeding that census, it is neces 
sary to take these figures as the standard for our consideration, 
as the statistics cannot he obtained for the later years. 
The only way to get any figures as to the numbers who 
migrated from different states to Oklahoma seems to be to take 
the general nativity tables of the census, which show the place of 
birth of the inhabitants. While, of course, many of the settlers 
of Oklahoma did not come there directly from the state of their 
birth but had often migrated once or twice before, probably the 
only changes necessary' in these figures to make them show the 
immediate sources of migration would be to increase somewhat 
the percentages from the western states and correspondingly de¬ 
crease those from the eastern states. 
The census gives the proportion of native and foreign-born 
in Oklahoma respectively as ninety-six and one-tenth per cent 
and three and nine-tenths per cent, a percentage of foreign-born 
far below the average for the United States as a whole. 2 Of 
the native-born population, seventeen and two-tenths per cent 
were born in Oklahoma, and the other eighty-two and eight- 
tenths per cent came from other parts of the United States, as 
shown in the following table: 3 
Table showing place of birth of native-born population in Okla¬ 
homa, 1900. 
Ka nsas. 
Per ct. 
15.9 
Kentucky. 
Pr. ct. 
3.1 
Missouri. 
12.3 
Nebraska. 
2.4 
Texas . 
8.8 
I ndian Territory. 
2.3 
Illinois. 
7.2 
Pennsylvania. 
1.5 
Iowa. 
5.0 
New York. 
1.0 
Indiana. 
4.5 
Alabama.) 
Ohio .. 
3.9 
Mississippi.£• 
2.4 
Tennessee. 
3 1 
Louisiana.) 
Arkansas... 
3.1 
All others. 
6.3 
Taking those states which are usually considered as 
southern, Missouri, Texas, Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, 
1 U. S. Census, 1900, vol. 1, p. li. 
2 Ibid., p. cvii. 
3 Ibid., p. cxliii. 
