================+=================================+====================== | NUMBER | PER CENT GEOGRAPHICAL +---------+-------+-------+-------+------+-------+------- SECTION | Total |Native |Foreign|Colored|Native|Foreign|Colored | | white | white | |white | white | ----------------+---------+-------+-------+-------+------+-------+------- Pacific | | | | | | | Coast[194] | 78,700| 29,576| 28,198| 20,926|37.58 | 35.83 | 26.59 Eastern[195] | 134,016| 52,419| 74,004| 7,593|39.11 | 55.22 | 5.67 Middle[196] | 394,062|176,194|175,819| 42,049|44.71 | 44.62 | 10.67 Western[197] | 388,920|233,274|128,761| 26,885|59.98 | 33.11 | 6.91 Border[198] | 251,544| 79,611| 16,649|155,284|31.65 | 6.62 | 61.73 Southern[199] | 207,549| 34,812| 6,432|166,305|16.77 | 3.10 | 80.13 +---------+-------+-------+-------+------+-------+------- United States |1,454,791|605,886|429,863|419,042|41.65 | 29.55 | 28.80 ================+=========+=======+=======+=======+======+=======+======= These different illustrations seem to show the truth of the proposition stated. (2) The converse of the preceding proposition is also true—the concentration of women of foreign birth engaged in remunerative occupations is on domestic service. The Eleventh Census shows that, in 1890, 59.37 per cent of all foreign white women at work were engaged in domestic and personal service. This leaves only 40.63 per cent to be distributed among all other gainful occupations.[200] A specific illustration in the case of an individual state is seen in Massachusetts. Here the percentage of the foreign born in the entire population is 27.13, while, as stated above, the number of foreign born women in domestic service is 60.24 per cent.[201] (3) The foreign born population as a class seek the large cities. In 1890 the persons of foreign birth in the United States formed 14.77 per cent of the entire population. But of the total foreign population, 44.13 per cent was found in the one hundred and twenty-four cities having a population of twenty-five thousand or more.[202] (4) The foreign countries having the largest absolute representation in the largest cities are Ireland, Germany, Great Britain, Sweden, and Canada and Newfoundland. The following table shows the relative number of persons born in these countries who are found in the United States as a whole, and in the large cities: TABLE III PROPORTION OF PERSONS OF FOREIGN BIRTH IN THE UNITED STATES