The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1904-07-07
Census Bulletin Shows the Negro
Population of This Country
to Be 8,840, ,789.
NINETY Per CENT IN THE SOUTH.
Between IL and Is Per Cent Is
Believed to Have Some De-
gree of White Blood.
Negroes Constitute About t-i5th Of the
City Population and About 18TH
Of the Country in continen-
tai United States.

Washington, July 2.-The census bu-
reau Friday issued the final bulletin
on the Negro population of the United
States, which shows total of S,si0,.
7S9. The report indicates that be.
tween IL and 10 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.
sinia, 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 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
the great cotton growing states than
it is in the districts outside of the
cities.
The district in which the proportion
of Negroes is greatest lies in the Mis-.
sissiDpi aluvial region along both
banks Of the lower Mississippi, where
five-eighths Of the population is Ne.
gro. the maximum being in Tssequena
county, 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 IN
country districts, while in the north
they are about one-fortieth of city and
one.ninetieth Of the population of couu.
try districts. In the country districts
of the south. excluding the population
of the PAP cities which had at least
$500 inhabitants both in 1890 and
1900, the Negroes increased from 1890
TO 1900 over 10 per cent; in the 242
southern cities as whole they in
creased 2l.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 fivesixths
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
population Of the same cities increased
only 20s per cent This is the only
group cf southern cities in which the
rate Of increase of Negro population
exceeded that of the whites. In the 3S
cities Of this class in continental Unit.
ed States the per cent. of increase was
3s for Negroes and 327 for whites.
The largest number Of Negroes liv.
fng in compact masses are found in
certain urban cities. several of which
lie outside the great cotton growing
states. The four each having over IS,
400 Negroes are: District of Colunl-
bia, co.extensive with Washington /,
Shelby county, Tennessee. containing
Memphis; Baltimore city, Nd, 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 illterate sex.