Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-12-22
WASHINGTON Com.
MENTS ON u. S.
CENSUS FIGURES
Mississippi and South Caro-
lima Have More Negroes
Than Whites
RACE IS NOT DYING OUT
NEGRO CONSTITUTES 1917 PER
CENT. OF POPULATION OF THE
UNITED STATES--MANY
CHANGES IN PAST
THIRTY YEARS.

Tuskegee. Ala. DIR. Booker T. WASH
ington has furnished to the Associated
Press for publication statement bear.
Ing on the figures issued by Dana Du-
rand, director of the United States
census bureau which is very interest,
ing. The review of the census figures
shows that there are two states in the
south where the negroes exceed the
whites in population-Sonth Carolina
and Mississippi.
The number of negroes in the so.
called southern states are as follows:
Delaware, S1,1S1: Maryland. 2,342,24s;
District of Columbia. 94.446; Virginia,
671,O96; West Virginia. 64.173; North
Carolina. 697.S43; South Carolina. $685..
s43; Georgia, 1.176,9S7; Florida. 30S,
6G9; Kentucky. 261, 656; Tennessee,
473,OSS; Alabama, 9OS.275; Mississippi
1,OO9.487; Arkansas. 442,S91; Louisi-
ana, 1854; Oklahoma. 1862; Tex
as, 690,O20.
DR.. Washington says:
THE director of the census issued
on November 9 preliminary state,
ment of the white and negro popula-
tion in the United States as shown by
the thirteenth census. According to
the returns there were in 1910, 91.972,.
266 persons In the United States sub
divided as to color as follows: White.
S1,732,6S7, or 8S.9 per cent; negro,
9,828,294, or 1917 per cent; all other
persons, 411.2S5, or 0.4 per cent.
The increase of the negro population
for the ten years l90O-1910 was less
than for previous decades. From 1880
to 1890 the increase was 1876 per
cent; from 1890 to 1900 the increase
was 10 per cent; and from 1900 to
1910 the increase was 11.3 per cent.
We must not, however, infer that be-
cause there Is decreasing rate Of in
crease of the negro population that
there Is a danger Of the negroes dying
out IN the United States; for should
the per cent. of Increase fall until 1t
was only two per cent. there would
still be for each decade a considerable
increase in the number of negroes.
The census figures also show that ex-
elusive of immigrants there is a de-
creasing rate of the increase of whites
This decrease, however. Is apparently
not as great as for the negroes. The
natural rate Of Increase of whites was
from 1880 to 1890, 20 per cent; 1880
to 1900 slightly more than 16 per
cent; 1900 to 1910. Is per cent.
During the past thirty years there
has been considerable change In the
proportion OF whites and negroes in
the south. In 1880 the whites consti
tute 63.9 per cent Of the population
and the negroes 36 per cent; in 1900
the whites constituted GA per cent
and the negroes 1913; in 1910 the
whites constituted 69.9 per cent. and
the negroes 29.8. S.749,390. or 80 per
cent. OF the negroes, live in the south,
and 1.07S,904. or 1O9 per cent. outside
Of the south, In 1900 1913 per cent
OF the total negro population lived out.
side of the south.
In West Virginia, Arkansas and
Oklahoma the negroes had higher
rate of increase than the whites. In
Delaware and Virginia there has been
only slight increase. namely, 1.6 per
cent. in each case. In Maryland. Ken
lucky and Tennessee there has been
since 1900 an actual decrease In the
number of negroes"