The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-10

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 There has been an increase in white nonulation since 1900 of H929.4e1. or 22S ,,er cent. as compared with an increase in negro population of 994,S00 or ll5 per cent. The excess in the percentage or lh- crease for the whites is, of course, due III part to the large immigration of forelsh- horn whites during the decade. There Is nracticallv no immigration of negroes.
 It is possible, however, to determine .approximately what the increase of the white population would have been apart from immigration. From preliminary tabulation the census bureau has ascer- tained that of the entire numoer of ior- eign horn white persons who were emu narrated at the thirteenth census, about 100000 or S7 per cent, were reported as having come to this country since l90V If this number is deducted from the Ill., crease in the white population, the latter then becomes less than 100000, instead of 14.e2S, 491, while the percentage of ln- crease is not quite 15 per cent instead or o2.3 per cent. This figure, 10 per cent is fairly comparable with the n.o per cent by which the negroes lncreaseo' since each percentage may be accepted as representing approximately the natural rate of increase-that is, the increase re- sulting from the excess of births over deaths
 of the total population of the south Tn 1a,o the whites constituted 69.9 per cent and the negroes 2S.9 per cent as com nared with GA and 32.3 per cent, re- sneotiyely. in 1900, and with 63.9 and 50 ner cent respectively, in 1880. The gam since 1880 in the proportion Of the white population of the south is the result largely of higher natural increase among whites than negroes, although It. IS to some extent due to the migration of ne p,roes to states outside the south Neither Interstate migration nor immigration from foreign countries has added very largely to the white population Of the south. The natural increase of the white nopulation is considerably higher ir the south than it is in the north.
 During the last decade, 190-191o, the white population of the south ihcreas9a 4o25. .603 or PA per cent as compared with an increase of S26, 421, or 10.4 per cent, for the negro poplation of the south.
 Eor. the remainder of the country put side of the south there has been an in- crease in white population during tbe de- oade from 5O,2S7, 226 to 61,1S5,l14. the growth thus being 10s97,SsS or 21.7 per cent. The negro population outside the south has grown from .025 to 1OlS,9O4. or by l6lSI9' equal to 1S.4 per cent.
 As already explained, the increase of the white population in the north and west is largely influenced by foreign inn rrigration while the increase of the negro population in those sections is in part the result of migration of negroes from he south.
 statistics of white and negro population of the south show, first, that in South Carolina and Mississippi the negroes ex- ceeded the whites at both censuses, al- though the proportion in 1910 is some what smaller than in 1900; and, second, that in West Virginia, Arkansas and Ok lahoma the negroes constituted a slightly larger proportion of the total population in 1910 than in 19Oe principally as the result of the migration of negroes from other states.
 In every southern state. with the eX- ception of West Virginia. Arkansas rnd Oklahoma the whites had higher rate { of increase than the negroes.
 Tn Maryland. Kentucky and Tennessee there has been since 1909 an actual de crease in the number of negroes and ir De1waare and Virginia there has been only slight increase in negroes, namely 1.G per cent in each case. These are all border states, and the facts stated arc doubtless due largely to the migration oi negroes from those states. partly, per laps, to the more southerly states. hut mere particularly to states entirely cut side of the south.
 The full signifiance of the changes ir th= relative numbers of the two races 1T the Eouth cannot be definitely stated un tsl more complete statistics are available p3rticularly those showing the interstat, u,igration of the native born population