Arizona republican., 1901-10-30
NEGRO IN THE CENSUS
Tendency Toward Diffusion in
 the Population
The Increase of Whites in the South ern States Has Been Greater Than in Any Other Part of the Coun- try.


 Baltimore, Oct. 29.-Analyses pub lished in this weeks issue of the Manu- lecturers Record of the figures of the white and of the negro populations in the census of 1900 show that the move ment tending toward the diffusion of the negro population more generally throughout the country has been ac- celerated during the past ten years. certain northern cities having received large accessions of that class of the population, and that the white popula- tion of the south has made an increase at a slightly greater rate than the white population in the rest of the country. The article says:
 The figures show that the white population of the forty-five states. four territories and one district within the limits of the United States increased from 55,093.2S3 to 66,S10,711, or 1,717, ,425. equal to 21.25 per cent, while the in crease of their negro population was from 7,4SS.476 to S,S33.212, or 1,344. .536. equal to 17.95 per cent.
 ''The increase in the south, including the District of Columbia and the four teen states from Maryland to Texas south of Mason and Dixon's line. the
 
 from 12,SSO. .S33 to 15,699. .30i. 2,s1s.471. equal to PISS per cent. and of negroes from 6,710,5S2 to 7.S35,392. or 1,124.S1o. equal to 16.76 per cent. while in the rest of the country the increase was from 42.212. .450 to 51,11l. .i07, or S.S9S.S57. equal to 21.0S per cent, and of negroes from 7sS O94 to 997, S20 or 219, ,726, equal to 2S.23 per cent.
 ''Three states in the north. New York, Illinois and Pennsylvania. had a com bined increase of white of 3,192, 737. or 314,2 ,266 more than the whole increase of the same class in the south. where the greatest actual increase. as we'll as the greatest percentage of increase, was in Texas. The 6S0. I34 additional inhab- itants of that state represent A per cent of the total southern increase and are but 193,101 less than the total in crease in the six New England states. where Massachusetts led with an in- crease of 354. 1891, with Connecticut sec ond with 15S.936. the comparatively small increases in Maine. New Hamp- shire and Vermont making percentages of 4.99. 9.29 and SPA, respectively.
 'Of the negro population there was a decrease of 277 in California, 2.644 i1 Nebraska, 10S in Nevada. S7 in North l Dakota. S1 in Oregon, I6 in South Da kota, 72 in Vermont and 346 in New Mexico, while there was an increase in | three territories and twenty-one states, the greatest increases being, of course, in the south, Georgia leading with 176 - i 1S3, followed by Mississippi. with 163.- 1 371; Alabama, 14s.S1s; Texas, 132. .551. South Carolina. 8, SS7; Louisiana, 91, 6I1:: Florida, 64,550; Arkansas. 57.739. and Tennessee. 49.249. four of these Alabama, Florida, Mississippi and | Texas-having suggestive manifesto | tions in comparison with the increase of the white population. The rate If negro increase was greater than that l of the white in Alabama, although the | actual increase was ,616 less. Its rate l was greater than that of the white in 1 Florida and Mississippi, the actual in crease of the negroes in the latter state being 65.322 more than that of tn. whites. but in Texas the rate of the negro increase was much less than that | of the white, where the actual increase | of the whites was 60.000 more than is the total negro population in 1900. l ''In 1890 three states-Louisiana. Mis- sissippi and South Carolina-had more negro inhabitants than white. By 1900 Louisiana had overcome that dispro- portion by gaining during the ten years Ill, ,217 in white popula ton, or 066 per cent, and only 91,611 of negro popula-
 
 Louisiana negroes went into Missis- sippi. but many others probably took part in the movement through Arkan- Sas and Texas of both whites and ne groes into Oklahoma and Indian Ter ritory, which increased in the former territory the white population by 30S, 69S. or 524.76 per cent. and the negro population by 15.S5S. or 533.40 per cent. and in the latter the white population INxr AI.a negro population by 1S,217. or 27.75 per cent.
 These manifestations, in connection with the fact that the negro popula- tion of New Mexico fell off 17.e3 per cent, point to d continuation of the movement of the agricultural, class of negroes toward the fresher lands of the southwest, particularly in Oklahoma and Indian Territory, Arkansas and Texas being only temporarily affected by the shifting population. The rata of increase of the negroes in Alabama is to be largely accounted for by the attraction of mining and manufacture ing industries there, while the influx into Mississippi undoubtedly in creased by the advance made in rail road building and the extension of the numbering industry.
 "In the meanwhile there is another movement, most marked in what were once known as the border states, of ths town negro to move to the northern cities. The rate of increase of the ne groes in Delaware was S.14 per cent: ir [ Maryland, S.99 per cent: in Virginia 4.02 per cent; in Mississippi, 7-36 De, cent. all far below the birth rate, ant . in West Virginia 33.16 per cent. Th' actual increase in those six states wa: but s5.615. or 6S.OO3 less than that i' 7 Alabama alone, and, what is mucl more significant, 64.909 less than thu combined increase in New York, New ' Jersey Pennsylvania, Ohio. Indian: 5 and Illinois. The increase in New York