1 Washington 0.5 2 South Dakota 0.6 3 Montana 0.6 4 Nevada 0.6 5 Wyoming 0.7 6 Massachusetts 0.8 7 Minnesota 0.8 8 Nebraska 0.8 9 Connecticut 0.8 10 Oregon 0.8 11 Utah 0.8 12 Dist. of Columbia 0.8 13 North Dakota 0.9 14 Idaho 0.9 15 California 1.0 16 New York 1.2 17 Iowa 1.2 18 Wisconsin 1.3 19 Kansas 1.3 20 New Hampshire 1.5 21 Michigan 1.7 22 New Jersey 1.7 23 Rhode Island 1.8 24 Illinois 2.1 25 Pennsylvania 2.3 26 Ohio 2.4 27 Maine 2.4 28 Oklahoma 2.5 29 Colorado 2.7 30 Vermont 2.9 31 Indiana 3.6 32 Maryland 4.1 33 Missouri 4.8 34 Delaware 5.6 35 Texas 6.1 36 Arizona 6.2 37 Mississippi 8.0 38 Florida 8.6 39 West Virginia 10.0 40 Virginia 11.1 41 Arkansas 11.6 42 Georgia 11.9 43 Kentucky 12.8 44 South Carolina 13.6 45 Indian Territory 14.0 46 Tennessee 14.2 47 Alabama 14.8 48 Louisiana 17.3 49 North Carolina 19.5 50 New Mexico 29.4 POPULATION AT LEAST TEN YEARS OF AGE AND NUMBER AND PER CENT. ILLITERATE FOR THE NEGRO AND WHITE RACES: 1900 AND 1890. ———————————————————+————————————————————————————————————————————————————— | POPULATION AT LEAST TEN YEARS OF AGE. +——————————+——————————+———————————————————+——————————— RACE. | | | Number Illiterate.| Per Cent. | | | |Illiterate. | 1900 | 1890 +—————————+—————————+—————+————— | | | 1900 | 1890 |1900 |1890 ———————————————————+——————————+——————————+—————————+—————————+—————+————— Continental U. S.: | | | | | | Negro population. | 6,415,581| 5,328,972|2,853,194|3,042,668| 44.5| 57.1 White population. |51,250,918|41,931,074|3,200,746|3,212,574| 6.2| 7.7 ———————————————————+——————————+——————————+—————————+—————————+—————+————— South Atlantic and | | | | | | South Central | | | | | | divisions: | | | | | | Negro population.| 5,664,975| 4,751,763|2,717,606|2,883,216| 48.0| 60.7 White population.|12,020,539| 9,456,368|1,401,273|1,412,983| 11.7| 14.9 ———————————————————+——————————+——————————+—————————+—————————+—————+—————