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Per cent. of females among the native whites

District of Columbia 51.48

Massachusetts 51.08

Rhode Island 51.01

Connecticut 50.86

New Jersey 50.68

New York 50.64

Maryland 50.57

North Carolina 50.48

South Carolina 50.46

New Hampshire 50.46

Pennsylvania 50.19

Georgia 50.10

Atlantic divisions are an old settled region from which, for many decades, a stream of emigration has flowed westward. This emigration has, naturally enough, consisted in considerable proportion of the male element. In this way the eastern communities have been depleted" [Compendium, Part I., p. 79). Now interstate emigration of the native Americans, however much it may have dissociated the sexes, cannot tend directly to establish in the country, as a whole, that numerical disparity which has been shown to exist. While it might explain the proportions in certain states, such a cause can hardly have been the controlling one in the first five states, from which comparatively little emigration has recently gone forth. Furthermore Vermont has lost by emigration a larger proportion of its native population than any other state in the country and yet Vermont has more native males than females. In the preceding list, as will be noticed, the states with an excess of females include some of the most densely settled districts. This appears more clearly if the list be repeated, and against it the same states be arranged in the order of their density of population. The numbers prefixed to the second column indicate the rank of the