Population problems / by Edward Byron Reuter.

  • Edward Byron Reuter
Date:
1923
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Credit: Population problems / by Edward Byron Reuter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    increasing rate of increase of other populations, the twen¬ tieth century is likely to see a rather widespread terri¬ torial readjustment of the races. It seems probable that certain countries are destined to undergo a present change in ethnic character, that there will be a modification in the world’s racial equilibrium, and possible shrinkage in the present white political domains. Race and Nationality Composition of the U, S.—The present population of the United States is practically nine- tenths white. The term white is used in the American statistics to refer to persons understood to be pure-blooded whites. Persons of mixed blood are classified according to the non-white strain, and in cases where the non-white strain is also mixed, the classification as to racial status is according to the community in which the person resides. Negro-white intermixtures are classed as Negroes; Negro- Indian mixtures are classed as Negro or Indian, according to the racial status of the community in which the person resides. The classification, therefore, rather understates the proportion of white blood, and somewhat overstates the proportion of blood of the other races. A large percentage of the Negro population and of the Indian population contains a considerable strain of white blood. So, too, the classification tends to overstate the amount of Indian as compared with Negro blood. Many of the Indian tribes are very much mixed by their adoption of, and intermixture with, the Negroes. Some of the Indian tribes contain almost no persons of pure-blood Indian stock. The classification, the number, and the per cent, dis¬ tribution of the population of continental United States, by races, according to the enumeration of 1920 are shown in the accompanying table.
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