238 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-I3TH ANNUAL REPORT

 TABLE 22.
 Comparisons of Rural and Urban Population of Central Florida, 1910.
 Whole State

 _______________________ __________ ____________ rbaii Rural

Percentages of total population: I
 Whit-es ----------------------------- 78.0 60.3i 62.5 1 59.5 58.8
 Native white, native parents ---------1 27-51 52-0 55-71 37-2 55.0
 Native white, foreign or mixed parents-I 19.61 5-31 3-41l 11-I 2-1
 Foreign white ----------------------- 3O-9 3-O 3-4!I 1-2 1.7
 Negroes -----------------------------1 21.81 39.61 37.511 40.51 41.2
 Males --------------I---------------- 52.3! 49.1! 54.811 50.81 53.1
Percentages of adult male population:
 Whites ------------------------------- 7.81 61.2 59.911 58.71 5-1.5
 Native white, native parents ----------- 26-51 51.4 50.01j 35-31 51-2
 Native white, foreign or mixed parents-j 6.-o 4.61 2.911 6-51 2-2 Foreign white ----------------------1 44-31 5-21 7-01' 16.1 4.1
 Negroes ----------------------------- 23.11 38.61 40.11 40.21 42.5
 Illiterate ..6-- .----- --- .-----__ 1 .5 6.4 13.711 7.71 16.8
Per cent of adult males in the following I 1 1 1
 groups: I I 1 11 1
 Total population --------------------. 30.61 30.21 31.2! 30.8 27.6
 White population -------------------- 30.11 30.51 29.81 30.71 26.9
 Native white, native parents --------- 29.51 29.8! 28.01! 29.6 25.7
 Native white. foreign or mixed parents 9.31 26.0! 26.21 18.1! 27.7 Foreign whites ---------------------- 43.6 52.71 63.4! 46.8 64.0
 Negroes .. ..- ...__.- ..__--- __ 32.41 29.3! 33.41{ 30.91 28.3
Per cent of illiterates in population over 10:1 1 1 11
 Native white ------------------------ 1.6 0.5 2.711 1.11 6.4
 Foreign white ---------_-------------- 14.4! 4.4! 12.911 11.2 8.9
 Negro .- .--------- -----...-- 12.11 12.21 25.911 15.41 30.0

men, white and black.* (The census gives no figures for nationalities in places as small as West Tampa, but the people there are probably mostly of Latin races, as in Ybor City.) And in Tampa
proper among the white children between the ages of 6 and 15
there are more with one or both parents foreign than with both parents native.
 This large proportion of recent immigrants from countries
with lower standards of civilization than ours is not peculiar to Tampa and vicinity by any means, but is common to practically all the larger cities of the United States. It is probably due at least


 *In 1910 only 20.8 per cent of the foreign white men in Tampa and 15.4 per cent of those in West Ta'mpa were naturalized, making the potential voters only 70.3 per cent and 35.8 per cent respectively of the adult males.