The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1904-07-05
NEGRO POPULATION.
Census Bulletin Just Issued Places 1t
at a,a4o,7S9.

reau Friday issued the final bulletin
on the Negro population of the United
States, which shows total of $780,
7S9, The report indicates that be-
tween IL and Is per cent. Of the Negro
population has, or is believed by the
enumeratorS. to have some degree of
white blood The center of the Negro
population is in Dekalb county, Ala
bama about four miles from the west
boundary of Georgia, having moved
thence from Dinwiddie county, Vir-
ginia, 476 miles northeast, since 1890.
More than n per cent. of the Negroes
live in the country, against more than
81 per cent of the whites. Almost 90
per cent. of the Negroes in the CONT
mental United States are in the south
ern states, and three-tenths of them
are in Georgia, Mississippi and Ala
hama Negroes constitute about one
fifteenth of the city population and
about one seventh of the country popu-
lation of continental United States
The proportion of mulattoes to all
Negroes is usually higher in cities Of
it is in the districts outside of the
cities.
The district in which the proportion
of Negroes is greatest lies in the Mis-
sissippi aluEial region along both
banks of the lower Mississippi, where
five-eighths of the population is Ne
gro. the maximum being in Issequena
comfy, Mississippi, with more than Is
Negroes to each white person. Nc
grOes form one-third of the population
In the south, both in cities and n
country districts, while in the north
they are about one-fortieth of city and
nne-ninetieth Of the population Of coup-
try districts. In the country districts
Of the SOUTH excluding the population
of the 2l2 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 in
creased 21.7 per cent. Their increase
in 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.
In the five southern cities having at
least 100000 inhabitants in 1900. the
Negro population increased 25.8 per
cent. from 1890 to 1900; the white
population Of the same cities increased
only POS per cent This is the only
group of southern cities in which the
rate of increase of Negro population
exceeded that of the whites In the SO
cities of this class in continental Unit
ed States the per cent. of increase was
3S for Negroes and 32.7 for whites.
The largest number of Negroes liv-
ing in compact masses are found in
certain urban cities, several of which
lie outside the great cotton CROWNS
states. The four each having over rs
600 Negroes are: District of Colum-
bia. co-eXtensive with Washington;
Shelby county, Tennessee, containing
Memphis: Baltimore city, Md, and Or
leans parish, La, co-extensive with
New Orleans.
Half the Negroes in the United
States are below 10 years of age. this
median age 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 the more illiterate sex