The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-11-09
White And Negro Population
In The United States

ltations show eOnclusiyely that the
higher rate OF increase for the white
population, as compared with The ne
gro during the period under review, is
lnot wholly due to the effects Of imni-
grafton. The natural Increase OF ihe
white population is on the whole no
ticeably greater than that of the ne
gro.
White And Negro Population Proper
tions in the South.
Table No. 2 shows the total popula-
tion OF the south, and the proportion
lof white and negro, respectively, at
each of the last four federal censuses.
OF the total population of the south
in 1910, as shown by this table, the
whites constituted 699 per cent and
the negroes 29.8 per cent, as compared
with GA and 1928 per cent, respective
.ly, ia 1900, and with 639 and &c per
cent, respectively, in 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, al
though it is to some extent due to the
migration of negroes to states outside
the south. Neither interstate migra-
tion 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 in the north.
During the last decade, 1900-11910,
the white population of the south in
creased 4,025.603, or 24.4 per cent, as
compared with an increase of 826, ,421,
or 10.4 per cent, for the negro popula-
tion of the south.
Conditions in the 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 61,1S5114,
the growth thus being 10,S97 1888, or
PIT per cent. The negro population
outside the south has grown from Gill;
OPS to 1,07S,9O4, or by 167S79, equal
to 1874 per cent.
AS already explained, the increase
of the white population in the north
and west is largely influenced by for
eign immigration, while the increase
of the negro population in those sec
tions is in part the result of the migra-
tion of negroes from the south.
Details For the South, BY States.
The statistics of the white and ne
gro population of the south, based up
on the returns of the censuses of 1910
and 1900, are presented in detail by
states in Table No. 3.
This summary shows, first, that in
South Carolina and Mississippi the ne
groes exceeded the whites at both
censuses, although the proportion in
1910 is comewhat smaller than in 1900;
and, second that in West Virginia.
Arkansas, and Oklahoma the negroes
constituted slightly larger proportion
of the total population in 1910 than
in 1900, principally as the result of the
migration of negroes from other states.
This table shows further than in
every southern state. with the excep-
Ition of West Virginia, Arkansas, and
Oklahoma. the whites had a higher
rate of increase than the negroes.
In Maryland Kentucky, and Ten
nessee there has been since 1900 an
actual decrease in the number of ne
groes; and in Delaware and Virginia
there has been only a slight increase
in negroes, namely, 16 per cent in
each case. These are al lborder 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 in the south can not be definitely
states until more complete statistics
are available, particularly those show.
ing the interstate migration of the
native-born population