374 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts ,, and Letters. 
Indian Territory, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, the 
total percentage is thirty-five and one-tenth, while from the 
northern states, Kansas, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, Ne¬ 
braska, Pennsylvania and New York, it is forty-one and 
four-tenths, 1 thus showing that in spite of Oklahoma’s southern 
location the majority of her population is from the North. 
That is perhaps further exemplified by the fact that the political 
parties in the territory have always been very evenly divided, 
with the Republicans usually in the ascendency, 2 in contrast to 
the large democratic majorities of the other southern states. 
This may in a measure be due to the small percentage of negroes, 
only three and nine-tenths in the territory, 3 which allows the 
white citizens to be divided into two nearly equal parties with¬ 
out danger of negro control. 
Dividing the Union now by the Mississippi river, we find 
that forty-nine and eight-tenths per cent of Oklahoma’s native- 
born population comes from the states west of the Mississippi, 
and only twenty-six and seven-tenths 4 from those east of the 
river, but it will be seen that of that twenty-six and seven-tenths 
per cent, the Northwest furnished fifteen and six-tenths, the 
South eight and six-tenths and the Bast two and five-tenths, 
while the southern and northern sections west of the river are 
quite evenly divided, with twenty-six and five-tenths and twenty- 
three and three-tenths per cent respectively. Thus we' see that 
the bulk of Oklahoma’s population came from the three north¬ 
western states'’ of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio 1 , and from the states 
between the Mississippi and the mountains excepting Minnesota 
and the Dakotas. To make still another arrangement of the 
states, we have from the four surrounding Oklahoma and Indian 
Territory, namely, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas and Texas, to¬ 
gether with Indian Territory itself, forty-two and four-tenths 
11 have considered Missouri as a southern and Kansas as 1 a north¬ 
ern state, because they are usually thought of as such, although really 
lying in the same belt. 
2 Int. Dept., Misc. Repts., 1901, pt. 2, pp. 323-24. 
a U. S. Census, 1900, vol. 1, p. cxiv. 
4 In this and the previous divisions, the six and three-tenths per 
cent which is not assigned to definite states has been neglected. 
