The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1911-11-24
THE cENsus OF 1910.

Principal Booker t. Washingto
Principal Booker T. Washington
furnished to the Associated Press, Tor
publication last week, the statement
which follows bearing upon the figures
issued by Mr.. Dana Durand, Director
of the United States Census Bureau
The report is published in the Asso-
ciated Press was necessarily some
what abbreviated. The following re-
view of the Census figures by Prlncl-
pal Washington may be OF interest.
He said:
The Director of the Census Issued
on November 9th a preliminary state
ment of the white and Negro popula-
ton in the United States as shown
by the Thirteenth Census. According
to the returns there we're In 1910, 9l,-
972,266 persons in the United States
subdivided as to color as follows
white, S1,732,6S7 or 8S.9 per cent.
Negro, 9,82S,294 or 1917 per cent. all
ether persons, 1925 or GA per cent
The increase of the Negro popula-
ton for the ten years 19OO-19lO was
less than for previous decades. From
1880 to 1890 the increase was 13.5 per
cent; from 1890 to 1900 the increase
was IS per cent; and from 1900 TO
1910 the increase was lib per cent.
we must not, however, infer that be-
cluse there is a decreasing rate OF in
crease of the Negro population that
there is a danger of the Negroes dying
out nthe United States; for should
the ner cent. of increase fall until it
was only 2 per cent, there would still
lie for each decade a considerable in
crease in the number of Negroes. The
census figures also show that exclusive
of immigrants there is a decreasing
rate of the increase of whites. Tnls
decrease, however, is apparently not
as great as for the Negroes. The
ratural rate of increase of whites was
from 1880 to 1890, 20 per cent; 1871
to 1900, slightly more than 16 per
cent; 1900 to 1910, Is per cent.
During the past thirty years there
has been a considerable change in the
proportion of whites and Negroes IN
the South. In 1880 the whites constl
tuted $50 per cent. of the population
and the Negroes Sc per cent; in 1901
the whites constituted GA per cent
and the Negroes 1913; in. 1910 the
whites constituted 500 per cent anC
the Negroes 29.S. 8,749,990, or SO pei
cent. of the Negroes live in the South
and 1,07S,904 or 1919 per cent. OUTSIDE
of the South. In 1900 1913 per cent
of the total Negro population l1vet
outside of the South.
There are at present two States II
the South-South Carolina and Mis-
sissippi-- where the Negroes exceed
the whites. In West Virginia, Arkan
sas and Oklahoma the Negroes had
higher rate of increase than tn
whites. In Delaware and Virgins
there has been only slight increase
namely, is per cent. in each case. Il
Maryland, Kentucky and Tennessee
there has been since 1900 an actua
decrease in the number of Negroes
The number of Negroes in the SC
7 called Southern States are as follows
Delaware, 91,1S1 Maryland, 2,342,249
!, District of Columbia, 94,446; Virginia
671, 096; West Virginia, 64,179; Nortl
!; Carolina, 697S43; South Carolina
S35,S49; Georgia, 1,176,9S7; Florida
: 1868; Kentucky, 261,656; Tennessee
i 479, 0SS; Alabama, 90S,275; MississiT
S pi 1,OO9,4 Arkansas, 442,S91; Lot
a isiana, 1854; Oklahoma, 1852
S Texas, 100000.
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