DISTRIBUTION OF SEXES IN THE UNITED STATES 729

Table II.

GENERAL POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES CLASSIFIED BY AND BIRTHPLACE ACCORDING TO THE RESULTS OF THE CENSUS OF 1 89O.

SEX

No. of Males

No. of Females

Excess of

Males 1 Females

Per Cent, ol

Males Females

White

Both parents native

17,472,903

5.781,571

3.746,276

4,951.858

115,272

16,885,445

5,722,104

3.764.404

4,170.009

12,408

587.458 59.467

18.128

50.85

50.26

49.88

54-29 90.28

49-15

One or both parents foreign born

49-74

Colore

d

50.12

781,849! 102,864

Foreign Bom

White Colore

45-71 9.72

d

Tot

al

32,067,880

30,554.370

1,513,510

51.21

48.79

the country. Hence immigration, which the census regards as the sufficient explanation of the disparity of the sexes, is able to account for less than three-fifths of the total, and for the other two-fifths other causes must be sought. The only escape from this conclusion is by assuming that great omissions or errors occurred in the census, and for such an assumption there appears to be no sufficient warrant.

The question then remains : Why is it that the native white population of the United States includes nearly 650,000 more males than females ? This question I conceive to be at present unanswerable, but it is one step in advance to show, as has been shown, that the answer usually given is insufficient, and further progress may be secured by an examination of the conditions under which a preponderance of either sex is found to exist in the United States.

As a preponderance of males among the rtative whites is the general fact it is simpler to ask, where do the females outnumber the males ? The following list (Table II.) includes all the states having an excess of females in the native white population.

These states lie along the Atlantic coast from New Hamp- shire to Georgia. The usual explanation given of the excess of

females in this part of the country is that of the census: "The