The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-11-23
SAYS DIR. WASHINGTON 4. COM.
MENTING ON DECREASINGA No.
RATE OF NEGRO INCRIASIGs5ts33S
Leaving The .Soiulith |.
Negroes Constitute q Larger Per
Cent INN orthern States Than, In /.
Former Censuses, Virginia, Mary-s
land and Tennessee Showing am
Actual Decrease. ...- Ill, $s% u

Principal Booker T. washington
furnished to the Associated Press,
for publication last week. the state
ment which follows bearing ,tupon
the figures issued by Mr. Dana Dur
and, Director of the United States
Census Bureau. The report as pub
llshed in the Associated Press was
necessarily somewhat abbreviated. 3.
The following review of the Census
figures by Principal Washington may
be Of interest. He said: =, !s15St%} !s15St1% 81
The Director of the Census issued
on November 9th a preliminary state
ment of the white and Negro p0pus
lat1on In theUnited States as shown,
by the Thirteenth Census Accord
Ing to the returns there were IN I
1910, 91,972,266 persons Ia the
United States subdivided as to coz
or as follows: white, 81 ,732,e87s;nr17
S9.9 per cent; Negro, 9,82S,294 Or
1o.7 per cent; all other, persons,S 4
A11,2S5 or 0.4 per cent. g.. -, :;sES,
The increase Of the Negro popuia-
t1on for the ten years I900-l91 O. waa
less than for previous decades; From
1880 to 1890 the increase was f3s5
per cent; from. 1890 to 1900. ths
increase was Is per cent; and from:
1900 to 1910 the increase was IT'S
per cent: I'VE must mot, however.
INFER that because there is a de- /
creaslng rate Of increase of the Negro )
population that there Is a danger. or :
the Negroes dying out In tpe United
States;~ for should the per cent u sSf 4
increase fall until 1t was only Dar
cent, there would still be for each I
uecade considerable increasing In
the number Of Negroes. The census
ngures also show that 'exciusivs Ssf Il
immigrants there is d sdecreagfnR
rate or the increase,df whites. III Ma
decrease, however, is apparentlYs not
as great as for. the Negroes. The
natural rate of increase Of whites
was from 1880 to 1890, 20. per cent. 4
1890 to 1900 slightly more than 16
per cent; 1900 to 1910, 15. per {
cent. -, y 4
During the past thirty years there
mas been, considerable change in n
the proportion Of whites and Negroes !.
In the South. In 1880 the whites
constituted $50 per cent. of the =
population and the Negroes 36 per
cent; In 1900 the whites constituts
ed GA per cent. and the Negroes
32:3; In 1910 the whites constituted /
o9.9 per cent. and the Negroes 2Ssy. a
8,f49,39O, or 80 per cent. of tha
negroes, live in the South and T.
o18,904 or 10.9 per cent. outside 0f s
tne south. In 1900 1913 per cent, !
OF the total Negro population lived
outside Of the South. -; 8 5,<tf
There are at present two stafAa I'm
tne South-South Carolina and Mis-
slss1ppi- where the Negroes exceed
the whites. In West Virginia. Az :
kansas and oklahoma the Negross
mad higher rate Of increase than
'he whites. In Delaware ana Vf1Ts-s . Z
elnla there has been only a. slight
lncrease; namely, 1.6 per cent IN K
each case. In Maryland, Kentucky
ana tennessee there has been since
f900 al actual decreaBe In the num- :
Der of Negroes
The number of Negroes in the So
called Southern States are as fol- :.
lows: Delaware, 31,181; Maryland,
4 z'o42,249; District ofColumbia. 94.
446; Virginia, 671,096; West Vir- 4
slnla' 64,173; North Carolina, 6s7.-
o47; south Carolina, 835,843; Geor- (.
s1a, 1,176,987; Florida, 308.e6s.
kentucky, 261,656; Tennessee. 478-
o8S; Alabama, 908,275; Mississippi
'o09,487; Arkansas, 442,891: Lon
isiana, 1854; Oklahoma, 1a7.Sia.
Texas, 69O,02O. ~. S.