The Calumet news., 1911-11-09

than 20 per cent, but higher than from
1880 to 1900
Excluding immigrants the rate of in
crease of whites has decreased during
each decade.
Percentage Of Increase in Negro
Population.
AS against these changes in the per-
centages of increase for the white pop
ulation, the census shows for the negro
population an increase of 11.3 per cent
from 1900 to 1910, as compared with
an increase. on the face of the returns,
of is per cent from 1890 to 1900, and
of 1876 per cent from 1880 to 1890. That
the rate for 1890 to 1900 should great
ly exceed that for the preceding decade
and also that for the following decade
seems improbable on general princi-
Piles. and it has been coneended by GER
tain statistical writer's that it is indi-
cative of deficient enumeration of
the negro population in 1890.
However that may be, these compu-
tations show conclusively that the
ulhlitl ihAt VI illNifttSt lbl Aht NillNN
population, as compared with the negro
during the period under review, is not
wholly due to the effects of immigra-
ton. The natural increase of the white
population is on the whole noticeably
greater than that of the negro.
White and Negro Population Proper
tons in South.
OF the total population of the South
i'm 1910, the whites constituted 69.9 per
cent and the negroes 294 per cent. as
compared with GA and 1928 per cent,
respectively. I'm 1900 and with 63.9 and
SO per cent. respectively, i'm 1880. The
gain since 1880 in the proportion of
the white population of the South is
the result largely Of higher natural in
crease among whites than negroes.
although ii is to some extent due to
the migration of negroes to states out
side the South. Neither interstate mi
grafton nor immigration from foreign
countries has added very largely to the
white population of the South. The
natural increase Of the white popula-
tion is considerably higher in the South
than it is i'm the North.
During the last decade, i900-1910,
the white population OF the South in
creased 4025,603, or 24.4 per cent, as
compared with an increase of 26,421,
or 1914 per cent, for the negro popu-
lation of the South.
Conditions in Country Outside of the
South.
For the remainder of the country
outside of the South there has been an
increase in white population during the
decade from 50,2S7,2 ,226 to 61 ,1S5,114. the
growth thus being 10,S97SSS, or 2t.1
per cent. The negro population out
side the South has grown from 9l1, ,O25
to 1,O7S,904, or by 167,S79, equal to 1874
per cent
AS already explained, the increase Of
the white population i'm the North and
West is largely Influenced by foreign
immigration, while the increase of the
negro population in those sections is
In part the result of the migration of
negroes from the South.
Details For South, BY States.
In South Carolina and Mississippi
the negroes exceeded the whites at
both the 1910 and 1900 censuses. al
though the proportion i'm 1910 is some
what smaller than in 1900; and i'm West
virginia Arkansas. and oklahoma the
negroes constituted a slightly larger
proportion of the total population in
1910 than in 1900, principally as the re-
suit of the migration of negroes from
other states.
In every Southern state. with the
exception of West Virginia. Arkansas.
and oklahoma, the whites had "A higher
rate of increase than the negroes.
In Maryland. Kentucky, and Tennes-
see there has been since 1900 an ,tual
decrease in the number OF negroes; and
i'm Delaware and Virginia there has
been only a slight increase i'm negroes,
ramely. 1.6 per cent i'm each case These
are all border states and the facts
stated are doubtless due largely to the
migration of negroes from those states.
partly. perhaps. to the more southerly
states, but more particularly to states
entirely outside of the South
The full significance of the changes
/ in the relative numbers OF the two
races i'm the South can not be definitely
stated until more complete statistics
are available. particularly those show
ing the interstate migration of the ma
tive-born population.
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