TABLE IV.-POPULATION OF CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES, BY STATES AND GEOGRAPHICAL DIVISIONS, 1890-1910, WITH NUMBER AND PER

1910

1900

1890 2

Number

Per Cent

Number

Per Cent

1910

1900

1910

1900

East South Central Division

8,409,901

7,547,757

6,429,154

862,144

11.4

1,118,603

17.4

North Carolina

2,206,287

1,893,810

1,617,949

312,477

South Carolina

1,515,400

1,340,316

1,151,149

175,084

Georgia

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2,609,121

2,216,331

1,837,353

392,790

Florida

Kentucky

752,619

528,542

391,422

224,077

2,289,905

2,147,174

1,858,635

142,731

Tennessee

2,184,789

2,020,616

1,767,518

164,173

Alabama

2,138,093

1,828,697

1,513,401

309,396

Mississippi

1,797,114

1,551,270 1,289,600

245,844

West South Central Division

8,784,534

6,532,290

4,740,983 2,252,244

Arkansas

1,574,449

1,311,564

1,128,211

262,885

Louisiana

1,656.388

1,381,625

1,118,588

274,763

Oklahoma

1,657,155

* 790,391

4258,657

866,764

Texas

3,896,542

3,048,710

2,235,527

847,832

Mountain Division

2,633,517

1,674,657

1,213,935

958,860

Montana

376.053

243,329

142,924

132,724

Idaho

325,594

161,772

88,548

163,822

Wyoming

145.965

92,531

62,555

53.434

Colorado

799.024

539,700

413,249

259,324

New Mexico

327,301

195,310

160,282

131,991

Arizona

204,354

122.931

88.243

81,423

Utah

373,351

276,749

210,779

96,602

Nevada

81,875

42,335

47,355

39,540

Pacific Division

4,192,304

2,416,692

1,888,334

1,775,612

Washington

1,141,990

518.103

357,232

623.887

120.4

160.871

45.0

Oregon

California

672,765
2,377,549

413,536
1,485,053

317,704

259,229

62.7

95,832

30.2

1,213,398

892,496

60.1

271,655

22.4

1 Hawaii and Alaska, which do not appear in this table, rank as 48 and 51, respectively, both in the ranking for 1910 and 1900. Total population, including population of Indian Territory and Indian reservations, which were specially enumerated in 1890. 3 Decrease.

* Includes the population of Indian Territory, which was 392,060 in 1900 and 180,182 in 1890.

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DISTRIBUTION OF THE POPULATION IN 1790

The middle Atlantic division, in which are located New York and Pennsylvania, demonstrates the growth of the great manufacturing states in contrast with the comparatively stationary position of the agricultural states, with the exceptions above noted.

Urban Growth.-This is the most significant development of the census of 1910-a development further marked by the fact that the population growth of these manufacturing states is almost wholly confined to the cities, the strictly rural districts of these states show

DISTRIBUTION OF THE POPULATION EAST OF THE 100TH MERIDIAN IN 1810

ing in many instances an actual decline in population. In New York, where there was an increase of 25.4 per cent, twenty of the sixty-one counties have decreased in population since 1900. In that year one-half of all the counties in the United States, of which there

are 2800, either decreased in population or showed an increase of less than 15 per cent. In the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee, comprising the great northern middle section of the country, and

DISTRIBUTION OF THE POPULATION EAST OF THE 100TH MERIDIAN IN 1830

formerly the heart of the agricultural district, | population increase has been accompanied by 440 out of 950 counties decreased from 1900 a great increase in farm values and the value to 1910. In other words, with the exceptions of farm products. noted, the population increase is almost wholly confined to municipalities, to increase in the urban population. Curiously enough, this

This rapid encroachment of the urban upon the rural population is the most significant deduction to be drawn from our recent