Right here it must be emphasized that the figure 65.1 applies not to naturalization, but to petitions for naturalization, which is a very different thing indeed. We shall elsewhere learn[115] that 11.5 per cent of all petitions are denied--more than half of the denials being for reasons of a technical character. The average of 35.1 of “sterile” declarations is that for the United States as a whole; but the figure is by no means constant or uniform. In some states the proportion of petitions to declarations is very much lower than that; in some it is very much higher. In Indiana, for example, the figures show a fruition in petitions of only 26.4, or a little more than 1 in 4, while in Wisconsin the petitions exceed the declarations by 15.7 per cent. As the above table shows, in four states the proportion of petitions exceeded 80 per cent, while 14 scaled down from 80 to 70 per cent. Twenty-six states show percentages below the 65.1 of the United States as a whole. TABLE XV SHOWING RATIO OF DECLARATIONS OF INTENTION TO PETITIONS FOR NATURALIZATION, BY STATES, BASED ON YEARLY AVERAGE NUMBER OF DECLARATIONS, 1908 TO 1912, AND YEARLY AVERAGE (WEIGHTED){1} ===================================================== STATE | RATIO || STATE | RATIO ---------------------+-------++---------------+------ United States | 65.1 || Illinois | 64.4 Wisconsin | 115.7 || Colorado | 64.3 Arizona | 94.2 || Nebraska | 64.0 North Carolina | 93.1 || New York | 64.0 Mississippi | 86.7 || North Dakota | 63.7 Ohio | 78.8 || Oregon | 63.7 Kentucky | 77.5 || Kansas | 62.9 New Jersey | 76.5 || Tennessee | 62.8 Maine | 76.1 || Minnesota | 62.7 Vermont | 75.6 || Iowa | 60.9 South Carolina | 75.3 || Texas | 59.5 Georgia | 74.3 || Delaware | 58.4 Montana | 73.9 || Oklahoma | 58.3 Alabama | 73.0 || Louisiana | 56.4 Maryland | 72.2 || West Virginia | 55.6 Arkansas | 72.0 || Massachusetts | 53.7 Michigan | 71.9 || Alaska | 53.0 California | 71.2 || Florida | 52.5 Pennsylvania | 70.9 || Nevada | 52.4 Connecticut | 69.6 || Utah | 50.5 Rhode Island | 69.6 || Washington | 50.3 Virginia | 69.3 || Idaho | 48.6 Wyoming | 68.1 || Missouri | 45.2 New Mexico | 67.0 || South Dakota | 44.1 District of Columbia | 66.8 || Hawaii | 39.9 New Hampshire | 66.5 || Indiana | 26.4 ===================================================== [note 1: The averages are weighted as per the table above, p. 221.]