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PART I

THE SOCIAL POPULATION

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CHAPTER I

THE MAKE-UP OF THE POPULATION

HE traits and tendencies of society are in no small degree CHAP.I determined by its human composition. It is therefore necessary to consider, first of all, how the make up of the population vanes in respect to age, sex, nativity, marital condition and mental capacity.

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In old countries the sexes are rather evenly distributed but in the process of settling a new country the sexes become in some degree dissociated. Thus in the United States west of the Missouri River there are about three men for every two women. In mining and cattle raising states like Nevada, Montana and Wyoming the ratio is near two to one.

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In Alaska and Hawaii the disproportion is even greater.

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In general the population agrapple with rude Nature will be strongly male, altho it makes a difference whether the attack is on

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PROPORTION OF MALES TO FEMALES IN THE TOTAL POPULATION, BY COUNTIES: 1910.

Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910.

Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.

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