The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-02
PRESENTS STUDY
OF NEGRO STATUS
Census Bureaus Finds Percent.
age of Breadwlnners Much
Higher Than Whites

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census bureau today issued the final
bulletin on the negro population of the
united States. The number, including
the entire area covered by the twelfth
census continental United States,
Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico), is
9,2O4,53l, perhaps a larger number than
IS found in any other country outside
OF Africa. Between II and 16 per cent
OF the negro population have some de-
gree of white blood.
Inc. center Of the negro population
in De Kalb county, Alabama, four
miles from the western boundary of
Georgia, having moved thence from
DlnWlddie county, Virginia, 476 miles
northeast, since 1890. More than II
Per cent of the negroes live in the
country, against more than 81 per cent
of the whites. Almost 80 per cent of
the negroes in continental United
states are in the Southern states and
three tenths of them are in Georgia,
mississippi and Alabama Negroes
constitute about one-fifteenth of the
city poplation and about one seventh
OF the country population of continent
al United States. There was an in
crease among the negroes of 1,345, 31S,
or IL per cent in continental United
States, but the rate of increase de-
cllned steadily through the nineteenth
century The negroes unlike the In
d1anS and the native Whites have a
slight excess of females, and illiteracy
among them is about seven times
greater than the whites.
Nearly Four Millions Work
There are 3,992,3s7 negroes in the
united States engaged in gainful oc-
h0i, n
mates 30 per cent while that of whites
under the same calculation is II per
cent. The proportion of mulattoes to
all negroes is higher in cities in the
great cotton growing states than it is
In the districts outside of the cities.
The districts in which the proper
tlon OF the negroes is greatest lies in
the Mississippi alluvial region along
both banks of the lower Mississippi.
where five-eightbs of the population is
negro, the maximum being in Issa-
quena county, Mississippi, with more
imam hfteen negroes to each white per-
son. Negroes form one-third of the
population in the South, both in cities
and in country districts, while in the
North they are about one fortieth of
city and one-ninetieth of the popula-
ton of country districts.
In the country districts of the South
excluding the population of the 242
cues which had at least $500 inhab-
ltants, both in 1890 and in 1900, the ne
groes increased from 1890 to 1900 over
10 per cent; in the 242 Southern cities
as whole they increased PIT per cent.
Ihe1r increase in the country districts
was ABOUT tWo-thirds as rapid as that
of the whites in the same area. the
increase in Southern cities was nearly
five sixths as fast as that of the whites
in the same cities
In the five Southern cities having at
least 100000 inhabitants in 1900 the
negro population increased 25.S per
cent. From 1890 to 1900 the white pop
uiatlon OF the same cities increased
only 20.8 per cent. This is the only
group of Southern cities in which the
rate of increase OF negro population
exceeded that of the whites.
Increase More Than Whites
In the thirty eight cities Of this class
in continental United States the per
cent of increase was SO for negroes
and 32.7 for whites. The largest num-
Der of negroes living in compact
masses are found in certain upban
counties, several Of which lie outside
the great cotton growing states. The
four each having over $4,000 negroes
are: District of Columbia, coextensive
with Washington; Shelby county, Ten
nessee, containing Memphis; Baltimore
city, Md, and Orleans parish, Louis
lana, coextensive with New Orleans
Half the negroes in the United
States are below nineteen years of
age, this meridian age being four
years below the whites. Their illiteracy
is more common in country than in
city districts, and the females. as with
the whites, are the more illiterate SEX
Negro breadwinners constitute 622
per cent of all negroes at least ten
years of age. For whites the CORE
spending per cent is 1876, and for
Southern whites 46.9. The relatively
high percentage for negroes is closely
connected with the marked prevalence
of female labor in that race. There
are twenty-seven occupations in which
at least 10000 negroes were reported
as engaged in 1900. These occupations
gave employment to 1907, 00S negroes,
or over 50 per cent of the aggregate of
the negro breadwinners.
The total number of negroes reported
by the twelfth census was 8,S40,7S9
To this number may be added the $685.
TAP persons of pure or mixed negro
blood in Porto Rico.