The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-11-16
Interesting Population Statistics.


The preliminary statistics issued
by the Census Bureau on the white
and negro population in the South, as
we find them in the Charleston Eve
ming Post, shows that the whites are
increasing in this section very much
more rapidly than the. negroes. The
statistics show that in the States Of
Delaware, Maryland, District Of Co.
lumbia, Virginia, West Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor-
gia. Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee,
Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas
Louisiana Oklahoma and Texas the
rate Of increase of the whites over the
negroes was considerably greater
than in the country generally. The
natural increase of white population
in the South is much larger than it is
in the North, and constitutes practi-
cal!y the entire increase of white
population in the South, since foreign
immigration into this section has
been comparatively Light.
The white population of the South
increased in the decade from 1900
To 1910 by 24.4 per cent, and the ne
gro population increased in the same
period only 10.4 per cent, which is
less than the rate Of increase Of the
negro in the whole country. Between
1900 and 1910 the white population
of the South increased 4,025,603,
while the negroes gained S26,421.
Outside of the South the whites in
creased in the ten years past 10,S97,-
S8S, or 21.7 per cent, while the ne
groes increased 167,s7s, or 1874 per
cent. Outside the South the total
negro population shown by the cen
sus is 1,O7S,904.
The published tables show that in
1880 the white population Of the
South was 1855, ,427 and the negro
population of the same territory S.
953,9O3, while in 1910 the whites
numbered 20.547,573 and the ne
groes S,749,390. In 1880 the whites
constituted $40 per cent of the pop
ulation of the South and the negroes
36 per cent. In 1910 the whites con-
stituted 69.9 per cent and the ne
groes 29.8 per cent Of the South's
people. In the thirty years the whites
have increased 94.7 per cent, or near
ly 100000 souls, and the negroes
have increased only 46.9 per cent, or
2,7a5,4s7.
In a generation the white popula-
ton of the South has grown at rate
more than double that of the negro's
increase. If the same ratio Of in
crease is maintained for the next thir-
ty years-and it is more than likely
that it will be largely increased so
far as the white population of the
South is concerned by immigration
to this section-the next generation
should see the South with white
population of forty millions and ne
gro population Of 1851, ,633, the col
ored people constituting only "a per
cent OF the total, against proportion
of 36 per cent thirty years ago.
II the rate of the regro's increase
continues to diminish progressively,
as It appears now to be- doing. the
disproDortion between white and col
oFed population il the South will be
much more marked, and 1t is more
than likely that it will be largely
increased so far as the white popu-
lation of the South Is concerned, by
immigration TO this section-the next
generation should see the South with
white population Of forty millions
and negro population Of 1861, ,633,
the colored people constituting only
"a per cent OF the total, against a
proportion of 36 per cent thirty years
ago.
If the rate of the negro's increase
continues to diminish progressively,
ah it appears now to be doing, the
disproportion between white anG col
ored population in the South will be
much more marked, and 1t is more
than probable that this will be the
case. 1t is evident, says the Post,
from the figures of the census that
the proportion Of whites to negroes
is steadily growing greater in the
country, and especially is this
marked in the South. The figures
given above should allay all fears as
to the settlement Of the race question
in the South.