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THE TEXAS ALMANAC-1929 43
STATISTICS OF POPULATION.
Race and Nativity-Urban and Rural-Population by Ages-Popula=
tion by Counties, Cities and Towns-Population of States-Areas-Pop-
ulation Per Square Mile-Statistics of Foreign Population.
During the twelve-month peIjod June 1 1')27, to lu, 1 1112 . the Unitt d Statcs u-
reau of the Ce stl s i c addci d !I91.110 l t the o' tll,il <stllllllt It the pplll tiolin of Texa-
This placed the total ptopulation -intiliate f,, T \a-, o t Jun-, 12 at ,4,17,s 0)
The most recent ellliumlnI ll n the lpopultitlnl of Te xls \i, - 1i ' 11 t whn the coulit
showed a total p liulati 22 T , w ,' 4lm114 Ito t - ll, tl, f l 1928, tc."
population has Increalsedl '2I 772, )1 171 pel elilt sine, 111211
Texas is among thos, StItes which are l'iration Ilm the older Southien States,
increasing rapidly in )p latill Th,- but it i. ihIih' I liat sn e 1920 then ml-
States showVing largely gr(s Illns i c'ase, I lttll lotm NI tih I1 Sta tt ha been
population site 192(10, accoldini g to the gl(at(1
estimates of the Irnlied St ttes Ilui i e of lit1" i I, 1l,,,, iil '4lIult ln t that the
the Cenqus, ne Califo nia, Illinois, Mich- l11inle'i In 'i'U '- l), lllitlon will accel-
igan, New York. Ohio and PeIinnsylvania. ela l ilr~ielia i- II\t t li ,)r thlee decades
and these in the majority of Instancecs tlht( i than i elin Iu,tlldd, despllt- the'
have been it!ow the Texast record in per- 1,( t illt i[ 1 u , 1 hl Ii lltmncrease In
eentage of increase e (See the table sho\ - ipl,lrl tiOll ()It tin\ Stit or N tiiun to be
Ing population ot States ) let Ilt-ed i Il l i talt of cvel\lopment
The den ity of polpulatio T x Texts Is exil I,, llill t r-1, slo ns,i hias
only lightly mole than half that of the h,1d t, o\, i t(t (,-tl li t-, niglation
entire United States The population per II (i, I tI. I th iI.t place,
square mile in Texas in 1925 va- 2i 9 a. T w, \ I:,la(t c o lly Icated fior
against a figure of 410 t1 or the entire Iapld Il lIll dtlI il( It (u lIi its e.tIly de-
United States Only forty out of the 231 y t1,1nl(nt 't'le t)ali l ,f the gle.at low-
Texas counties has a d nslltY of 41 4 or < 1 _ 1-il-l n i (I hannl iI ,i - It, X lldernI ss
mole in 1928 AVith llItl millionS i ''l 111do10 the l i to Te-x s Iestultous
acres of fine ailoultlIlal land, a c ilabloe F"ul the ltmit . T< \as 1 a dlr ctle wvvestward
fol dev(eloplnlent and wVith the iltisti (l tl u S ti. th i l( re th le waz not the
elxpanslin of Texas o(nlyv Ie' inning it 1 V' ( -t A i d 114 1 Ih t '-td .11 the No th-
e ildent the lpopulI lation it T x,as slihould t ,hi-I eli Srit( , ti i po llltLion of w hich
continue Its r pidl late (f inClI r L a fOl u-I ,(i \ i el-it\\ a Illto thI Aldlle WeVst
nnny y ears. Texas lanks tiftli among the I101 \-(,ith\w( t e<1 i-l- tht regions to
States ii total lopitulationi , but ( n a hlIasi s i - 1 1v l l ltly thi11 it 'Texa\ s
of poliula niin p]Il stlltr e iil it amilt, Early EIftidiciIp%.
accoldl g to 19[2 figul s, \\a , tt - Again Texas' pollttl atltars \were a
fitth handicap Tihe c.il- chel, ti- Ir If T xa-
It st en that Texas hlli reach a pop- IlistolrN t l n-lfsted of eolIonizdatiIn under
ullation o t 10,000,0(0 without hnectt'h Rlepulbllc of I ten revolution, ullel-
hleoling pedominantl ul an tain lndel)eldenlt status. anlnexatio to tilhe
Rural Population. I'liitedl States, tilittitulticis x ih AI 1 exleo
Tables on tollowin pag(- sh"l' the leading g to the Itca xl( l \Vd, .se( ssion
chal-actei lStlcs of Texas popltilltion in de- with the Confife ela( , treI-entnlllce to thli
tall It will be se-en ti ni t it l (I ,f them 'Unlion and TiRcollstructiLon ThIus fo half
that Texas is Iprledo llllil tl- oi f - native Ia century,. r in 13,20 to 1870. T( svas wias
white population. In 1920 the neglo pop- looking to an uncertalln tuture The same
ullation w t on1ly 15 1 11, I cent of the rctors \hich impeded Ilopulattion nimpeded(
whole, and the for( n-]or-n wlhitt the other pclat need of Texas, which "wias
amounted only to 7.7 iPer cenlt No other le ilt 'tles L i transpi orta ti n In fact, not
State having as great t(,putlt)n as Texas, until the adoption of the prclsent State
or even approximately ,t I l P h poptull Coltitution in 157(;. hllh ma be looked
tion, has so great perlcenltage iil In uponll a, the end of 1Reclnstriuctlon, thou-h
1920 the population of Texas \va, 6 pe; the State had 1eu1 r admitted to the
cent iural according to the cla-ification t iniol tit iutlsly, cld Texas ailiie a.t a
of the Hureau (of the (Co n, , hICh in- sta e in its polithltcal history 1 ht e It
eludes In urban )opultin11 n1l1 inh il- could look contflt idently towald the future
tants of inclIorpolated iI t 200 or IThere had Ilipun dtill n reconsti-utie'n
more iopulatlol The a( tul 1faii plIu- a lapid mnig iatlon tfrom the Old South.
lation of Texas v as 2 111,12 Imilt 1 Illdig \h ch sie also ul l'ergoing leciionstlue-
to the agriicultural ciensils ,I 1',1 , n t in Whll il. l th i movement added greatly
this was the largest nIricwultut al poll pula- to tihe T'-exa., p)opulllation,ll still it cwas a
tion recorded by any State- handicapllt t) some xtent. This for the
The population of Texas is largely lI eation that It confllim li Ti .lxa. a a cot-
stock descend d frollm tamil s which ton giow ing State and dlisccullaed lmigra-
came from the States *of the Old South toin ft lro Nol thel n a td Aliddle Wetern
during the last two generation> There States T xas had entered the Union as
are in Texas today (basis of 1920 cen- a Sla\ e State, thi refore ii cotton State. It
sus) 968,382 persons who were born in pi .oie-sed the toil and climate resources
other States, and 363,532 who were born for a vara ty of other crops, but the post-
in other countries, the latter figure con- war movement of cotton farmers into
sisting largely of Mexicans The most Texas sealed the doom of its vast agri-
noteworthy evident development in migra- cultural resources as a one-crop, cotton
tion of population to Texas in recent producing territory. Only during recent
years is the growing percentage of per- -ears has Texas begun to break away
sons from the North. There is still a large tromn sole dependence on cotton and with
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