The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-02
THE NEGRO POPULATION
REPORT ON SUBJECT ISSUED NY
CENSUS BUREAU,
Present Center of Population IL In De-
kalb County, Alabama, Having
Moved from Dinwiddie County,
Virginia.

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Washington. July 1.-The number of
| negroes in the Urited States, inciudina
the entire area covered by the twelfth
census Continental United States.
Alaska and Hawaii and Porto Rico, is
9,2o4.531, perhaps larger number
than is found in any other country out
side of Africa, according to a report
issued today by the Census Bureau.
The report indicates that between, ii
and l6 per cent. Of the negro popula-
| ton has. or is believed by the enumer-
ators to have some degree OF white
blood.
DeKalb County, Ala, abcr. four miles
from the western boz dai i ~ Ceo-aiai
having moved thence from Dfnwiddie
county. Va, where seventy-six miles
northeast. since 1890 more than n per
cent of the negroes lived in the coun-
ty against more than 81 per cent. of
the whites. Almost 90 per cent of the
negroes in the Continental United
States are in the Southern States and
three-tenths of them are in Georgia,
Mississippi and Alabama.
Negroes constitute about one-fif
tcenth of the city population and about
one-seventh of the country population
of Continental United States. There
was an increase among the negroes of
l.345.31S. or Is per cent. in Continental
United States. hut the rate of increase
declined steadily through the Nine
teenth Century. The negroes. unlike
the Indians and the native white, have
slight excess OF females. Illiteracy
among them is about seven times
greater than the whites. There are
3.992.SS7 negroes in the United States
in gainful occupations. Their death
rate approximates 80 per cent, while
that of whites under the same calcu-
lations is 81 per cent
The proportion of mulattoes to all ne
groes is usually higher in cities of the
great cotton growing states than 1t is
In the districts outside of the cities.
The district in which the proportion
of negroes is greatest lies in the Mis-
sissippi alluvial region along both
banks of the lower Mississippi, where
five -eighths of the population is ne
groes. the maximum being in Issaquena
county. Mississippi ~.,h more than Is
negroes to each white person. 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 population of country
districts. In the country districts of
the South. excluding the population of
Nht GfS tlNlNS Whitil Hdu at ltdbI S,OUU
inhabitants, both In 1890 and 1900, the
negroes increased fiom 1890 to 1900
over 16 per cent; in the 242 southern
cities as a whole they increased PIT
per cent. Their increase in the coun-
try districts was about two-thirds as
rapid as that of The whites In the
same area; their increase in southern
cities was nearly hve-sixths 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 per cent.
from 1890 to 1900; the white population
in the same cities increased only 20
per cent. This is the only group of
southern cities in which the rate of
inc ease of negro population exceeded
that of the whites.
The largest number of negroes living
in compact masses are found in certain ,
urban counties, several of which lie
outside the great cotton growing
states The four each having over U.s.
600 negroes are District OF Column
bia co-extensive with Washington;
Shelby county. Tennessee. containing |
Memphis Baltimore City, Maryland |
and Orleans Parish, Louisiana, cock |
tensive with New Orleans.
Half the negroes in the United States |
n - below g years OF age, this medium |
ag being four years below the whites. |
Their illiteracy is much more common |
in country than in city districts. and !
the females, as with the whites. are |
tn, more illiterate sex
Negro bread winners constitute 62.22
n,r cent of all negroes at least ten
wears of age. For whites the cores
bonding per cent. Is 4s,6. and for south
erl whites 4b.9
The relatively higher per cent 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 re-
ported engaged in 1900. These occu-
pations gave employment to 3,SO7.0 COS
negroes. or over IS per cent. of the ag-
gregate of negro bread winners
The total number of negroes report
ed by the Twelfth Census was $780,
1855 To this number may be added the
363.O42 persons of pure or mixed negro
blood In Porto Rico.