The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-12-12
WHAT CENSUS FIGURES SHOW
AS TO RACES AND TO INNI-
GRANTS.

IdplSs In SOlI1O Z I'll l11o ItldIlNe
growth Of the several sections Of the
State:
The total population Of North Car
DINA in 1910 was subdivided as to
color as follows: White, 1,5OO,513:
negro, 697.843;~all other persons In-
dams. Chinese and ~Japenese), 1881.
The equivalent figures for 1900 were:
White. 1,263.603; negro, s24,46e; all
others, 5,738. For 1890 they were:
White. 1,O55,3s2; negro 561,o18; all
others. 1,549.
The negro population constituted
SIS per cent Of the total population
Of the State in 1910, as against 33 per
cent in 1900 and 34.7 per CEN in
1890.
In the decade, the whites have in
creased 236,91O; being nearly 10 per
cent a"alnst 2OS,221, which was rath-
er more than 10 per cent, in the pre-
yious ten years. That is a gratifying
increase, especially when we remem-
Der that the great agricultural State
of Iowa has actually lost population.
The negroes increased 1894, be-
ing something more than Ii per cent,
as against 63,374 in the previous de-
cade, which was about the same per
cent Of increase for that period.
The region of increased population
is chiefly the central section. Some
of the mountain and coast counties
have lost populations: Allegheny,
Ashe, Clay and Madison, Hyde and
Dare. while only Caswell in the in
terror has lost population.
Some others have increased less
than ten per cent: Macon, Polk,
Pennsylvania and Watauga, at the
west: Gates, Tyrrell and Washington
at the east. and Orange, Person and
Stokes in the interior.
The negroes have decreased at the
west in the following counties: Allie
ghany, Ashe, Buncombe, Burke, Ma
con, Mitchell, Lincoln, Rutherford,
Watauga, Yadkin and Yancey; at the
east. in Dare, Hyde, Gates, Martin
and Craven; then from Warren west
along the Virginia line; also in Frank
lin, Randolph, Montgomery, Davie and
Cabarrus.
In some other counties the increase
has beer almost nothing.
In the central section, we observe
that Wake has an increase~of 400
whites and 1900 negroes; and John
ston has an increase of 5000 whites
and 1000 negroes; Duplin. 1880
whites. and 700 negroes; Sampson,
assoc whites and 900 negroes; Column
bus, 1900 whites and $500 negroes.
In these and some other agricul-
tural counties. there has been an in
crease of both races; showing a thick
ening Of population.
h population of the sever chief
cities is given, but because there has
IN some cases been an extension OF
territorial limits, the figures lack GER
tainty as measuring natural growth.
The population Of these cities taken
together show an increase Of nearly
SO per cent. The whites increased
about 70 per cent, and the negroes
about 40 per cent
In 1900 there were 54,753 whites
in these cities. and now 92,04S, show
ing an increase Of 1925.
Ten years ago these cities had a
negro population Of 39,373 and now
they have 56,997, being an increase of
1864.
The normal increase in the negroes
in the decade would have been about
5000, and these figures indicate that
about 10. negroes have gone to the
towns, not being near SO many as tne
plumber Of whites who have left the
country for town life. Outside OF
these cities, the increase OF negro pop
ulation has been $4,000. II IS pioD
able that many negroes nave renioN-
ed from the State, but no a large
proportion seek the cities, SO Tar DIS