The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-03-11


Now how many persons have come into
the S(ate to take the place of these 293, 800
that have gone away? The total Is 81 455,
of whom 81, 909 are whites. We have sent
abroad more than 300, 600 white North
CarOlinians and got in their places from
other States less than 30, 900. We are
out then by this swap more than l65. Geo
good white folks besides more than lG, 600
darkeys. In much as the average life
Of a generation IS about 33 years, the most
of this great army of folks have gone away
since the war.
Why have they gone away The large
number who went to Tennessee OF course
represents natural movement Of popula-
ton along an almost due westward line.
The same general tendency accounts in
great measure for the large movements TO
Missouri and to Texas and to Arkansas.
The numbers that have gone into South
Carolina and Virginia represent the mOy-
ing about of heighbors. In all these move
ments of population there Is nothing
strange
But close examination of these figures
does show a good many strange things.
Why is 1t tor instance tIat :, 900 more pto
pie have gone from our State INTO lrglllla
than have come from Virginia into our
State? our lands near the line are ;3s rich
less densely populated than Virginia, and
our lands are cheaper. If there were any
reason for a Northward movement of pop
ulatiOn, we should have received a CORES
pondingIy larger number from South Car
Dina than we sent thither, Dut such is not
the case; for there is not 300 difference be
tween the number of South Carollnlans
who have come among us and the number
Of our folks who have gone to South Car
Olina 1t looks very much as if our people
ran away from home Northward and
Southwark and that folks both to the North
of us and to the South of US had a tendency
NOT to return the compliment.
Now let us look at the number we have
sent to the Northern States. To crowded
little Connecticut we have sent l13 good
citizens to earn their living III one OF the
densest populations in America, but Con
necticut has sent us i'll return only 1856
Gncluding her nvallds who have come to
enjoy our weather. and her carpet-bag-
gers too.) SO also Massachusetts. There
are 296 of our folks in that State, and
only PA of the cod fish people have come
to live with us. We ought never to swap
unless we can get 2 for |. We have not
even done as we'll as this with New Jersey,
which is nothing but q manufacturing
State We have sent thither 35S people,
and got in return fewer than we st Mt
only 244 So, too. of course, with New
York. ,037 North Carolinians have gone
there and only S53 New Workers have come
to our State. With Pennsylvania we have
driven little better bargain We have
given 939 people for $50.
Now let US take into consideration all
the Northern and Northwestern States that
we call Yankee States. Leave out Missouri,
which is a sort of Southern State, and
leave out all the Territories and the trans
Rocky Mountain States whittier men have
gone chiefly as adventurers; and let US sec
how many of our white people have gone
to the Northern States and hOW many peo-
ple have come from them to North Caro-
lima The following are Northern and
Northwestern States-Maine, New Hamp
shire. Vermont, Massachusetts, Connect
cut, Rhode Island, New York, New jersey,
Pennsy sylyania, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana,
Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa,
Nebraska, Kansas. They are all settled
and controlled by people whose history and
traditions are different from ours When
North Carolinian goes to Mississippi or
| Tennessee or Missouri lie finds kinsfolk: he
does not find any in these Northern States.
Now to these IS States II 1868 white
North Carolinians have gone; and from
! them 3.416 People have come into our
! State. Twelve times as many or our peo-
pie have sought Northern homes as North
ern people have sought homes among us;
and by this swap (by which we have got a
/ number of invalids and carpet baggers) we
/ have lost 3,,8S. good people. Now all
! these Northern States are much more
/ densely populated than North Carolina
/ except parts of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and
! Kansas Their climate is not so good;
! their lands are not SO cheap and fertile:
competition is greater, and strangers TO us
/ live there.
/ Now let us compare our experience III
this matter with Il e experience IL tisis
matter with the experience or South caro-
/ lima and Georgia-two others of the old
/ Thirteen So3therII States. hlle We have
sent Al 1853 whites TO the North, South
Carolina lao sent only $40, and Georgia
only S,354. Yet Georgia and South Car
olina each have a larger percentage OF
black population than We have. We have
sent ) times as many white people tC
/ Northern States as Georgia has sent, and
received less than half as many IL retul L
as Georgia has received. We HAVE SEM
TO THESE NORTHERN STATES MORE THAN
TWICE As MANY WHITE PEOPLE AS BOTH