The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-26
NEGRO POPULATION.
and Some Facts Recently Issued by Cen
SnS Bnreau.

u The Census Bureau recently is
4 sued the final bulletin OH the negr
population Of the United States.
The number of negroes in th
! United States, including the entir
area covered by the twelfth censu
continental United States), Alas
ka and Hawail and Porto Rico, il
9,204, ,531, perhaps larger mum
Der than is found in any othe
country outside of Africa.
The report indicates that be
tween IL and 16 per cent. of tn,
negro population has, or is be
lieved to be by the enumerators tt
have some degree af white blood
The center of the negro population
is in Dekalb county, Ala. abou'
four miles from the western boun
dairy of Georgia, having moved
thence from Dinwiddie county
Va, where seventy-six miles north
west since 1890 more than II pei
cent of the negroes lived in the
county against more than 81 pei
cent of the whites.
About 80 per cent Of the negroes
in the continental United States
are iu the Southern States, and
three tenths of them are in Geor-
gia, Mississippi aud Alabama.
Negroes constitute about one.ff.
teenth 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, 1913, or Is per
cent in continental United States.
but the rate of lucr aSe declined
steadily through the nineteenth
century. The negroes, unlike the
Indians aud the native whites have
a slight excess of females.
1lliteracy among them is about
seven times greater than The
whites. There are 3,992,3 ,337 re.
groes in the United STATES engaged
in gaiufrl occupations. Their
death rate approximates 80 per
ce"t, while that of the whites uE-
der the same calculation is II per
cent.
The proportion of mulattos to
all negroes is usually higher
in cities of the great cotton grow
ing Estates than it is in the dis
tricts outside Of the cities.
The district in which the pru
portion of negroes is greatest lies
in the Mississippi alIuvial region
!. along both banks of the Lower
Mississippi, where five-eights of
the population is negroes, the max
imum being in Isaquena County
Miss, with more than fifteen ne.
eroes to each white person. Ne.
groes form one-third of the popu.
ulation in the South, both in cities
and in country districts, while
in the North they are about one
fortieth of city and one nine tieth
of the population Of country dis
tricts.
In the country districts of the
South, excluding the population
Of 242 cities which had at least
$500 inhabitants both in 1890 and
1900, the negroes increased from
: 1890 to 1900 over 16 per cent in
the 242 Southern cities as a whole
they increased 21.7 per cent Their
increase ia the country districts
was about two-thirds as rapid as
that of the whites in the same
area; their increase in Southern
cities was nearly FIVE sixths as
: fast as that of the whites in the
same cities
r In the five Southern cities hav.
ing at least 100000 inhabitants in
1900 the negro population increas
ed 25 8 per cent from 1890 to 1900
the white population for the same
cities only increased 20 s per cent
This is the only group of Southeru
cities in the rate Of increase of ne
gro population. exceeded that of the
whites.
The largest number Of negroes
living in compact masses are found
in certain urban counties, severaI
of winch lie outside of the great
cotton growing States. The -four
: each having over $4,000 negroes
are District of Columbia, co exten
sive with Washington; Shelby
county, Tenn, containing Mem
phis; Baltimore City, Md ans
New Orleans Parish, La, co exteu
sive with New Orleans.
Half the negroes in the Unitet
States are below 19 years OF age
this medium age being four year.
, below the whites. Their illiterac,
is much more common in countrl
than in city districts and TIN
: females, as with the whites, are tb,
1 more illiterate sex.
& Negro bread winners constitute
1922 per cent of all negroes y
: least 10 years Of age. For white,
2 the correspondent per cent is 49,
4 and for Southern whites 469.
!. The relatively higher per cen
;. for negroes is closely cOnnectp,