Oklahoma │ 28│ 1│ 42│ 2 37. Oregon │ 42│ 1│ 37│ 10 38. Pennsylvania │ 5,213│ 104│ 4,630│ 1,077 39. Rhode Island │ 546│ 3│ 322│ 170 40. South Carolina │ 6,860│ 188│ 9,842│ 2,341 41. South Dakota │ 121│ 1│ 14│ 4 42. Tennessee │ 10,954│ 125│ 10,404│ 1,141 43. Texas │ 6,386│ 69│ 5,794│ 461 44. Utah │ 14│ 1│ 14│ 2 45. Vermont │ 33│ │ 31│ 6 46. Virginia │ 15,655│ 253│ 18,864│ 4,483 47. Washington │ 69│ │ 87│ 15 48. West Virginia │ 2,080│ 7│ 927│ 41 49. Wisconsin │ 74│ 1│ 105│ 28 50. Wyoming │ 31│ 3│ 20│ ─────────────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴─────────┴───────── [Illustration: Proportion of Negro Wage-earners to Negro Population. Diagram No. 4. ] [Illustration: Grouping of the States and Territories. Diagram No. 5. ] [Illustration: Proportions of Male and Female Wage-earners. Diagram No. 6. ] PROPORTION OF WAGE-EARNERS TO POPULATION. The foregoing diagram No. 4 shows by the length of the bars the proportion which the negro wage-earners bore in 1890 to the negro population of each state. This proportion was greatest in the states and the territories of the west. Following these are the northeastern states, while the lower part of the column is made up of the states in the upper Mississippi valley and those of the south. OCCUPATIONS BY GROUPS OF STATES. The distribution of wage-earners among the five occupation groups differed widely in different parts of the country. To study it, it will be sufficient to group the states and analyze the statistics of each group. The groups which will be used here are those which have been in use in the last two censuses—namely, the northeastern and southeastern, north central and south central, and western groups. The states and territories of which each group is composed are shown in map No. 5. Examination of the states forming the above groups will show that the groups are in many respects very characteristic. The southeastern and south central groups contain nine-tenths of the negroes of the country. These states may be said to constitute the home of the negro, while in the northern and western states he is an immigrant. OCCUPATIONS BY SEX AND STATE GROUPS.