Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-08-08
THE BOOZE OF BLACK DOMINATION LAID

The federal census taken last year lays the
oge--permanently we hope--of negro domn
alton in the south. 1t demonstrates beyond
cavil that the natural increase of the white race
in that section is greater than that of the blacks
In Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi the col
ored people come nearest to holding their own
that IS their relative propOrtion--but even
there the percentage of increase, as shown by
the birth and death rate is in favor of the
whites
In Louisiana, which had colored majority
thirty years ago. the white preponderance of
population has substantially increased The for
black majority has been turned into a de-
cded minority The white lead of ten years
ago has considerably increased. This is due to
three causes: White immigration from Europe
and the north, the steady drift of the negroes
to the north and west and heavy death rate
among the blacks. In New Orleans the death
rate among the colored folks exceeds the birth
rate and the black population must be con
Stantly replenished from the outside to hold it's
own. The whites now outnumber the blacks
in the Crescent City by nearly two to one. In
the rural districts the whites are increasing
faster than the blacks.
In South Carolina and Mississippi the ne
grocs still outnumber the white. but the latter
gradually closing the gap, and if something
does not occur to arrest the present population
movement will have a numerical superiority in
the next generation The negroes are not hold
ing their the farms, drifting away to
the towns north and south. In the south they
not employed as factory operators. and hence
the increase in southern manufacturing activi-
ties swells the white population and drives out
the blacks. This is noticeable III the Carolinas
and Virginia. In North Carolina the percentage
of increase among the negroes is hardly one
third the increase shown among the whites. In
Virginia it is hardly perceptible.
In Texas the whites have completely Swamped
the black population. There are still half a
dozen minor counties in which the negroes have
numerical superiority, but their preponderance
is rapidly disappearing. Forces at work
which steadily diminish the black mans hold on
the land and his place in the industrial or
ganization.
The old plantations disappearing. With
them is going the negro renter and his mule
Small white farmers who till their own land and
only employ negroes as help are taking the
place of the planter and his colored tenants
So the negroes drifting to the north and tC
the towns where the majority of them huddle
in slums and fall victims to tuberculosis anC
other diseases propagated by irregular habits
and bad sanitation The drain the black
population is not replenished from any source
Reproduction is its only source of supply. That
source is neutraized to large extent by dis
proportionately high death rate which favors the
whites whose numbers in the south are being
steadily augmented by immigration from the
north and from Europe.
The negroes have substantially increased
since the census of 1900 taken, but more
Of them are north of the Potomac and the Ohio
And in the south the white race is multiplying
faster than it is in the north. Furthermore, thu
negroes are showing diminished fecundity al
they advance in education and material pros
perity. They do not have many children
showing the same tendency-to considerabl.
less degree--toward small families that is mani
fest with the increase in wealth among whit
people
The net result is that the black has los
ground relatively even in what is termed tn
black belt of the south. The colored people ar
not retrogressing but combination of circum
stances is steadily reducing their numerical pro
portion south of the old Mason and Dixon line
The spectre of black domination is fading fror
view. The American negroes. isolated fron
their kin and cut off from reinforcement by i'm
migration. are year by year becoming a smae
element in the sum total of the country's popu
latiOn.
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