The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-11-16
OF THE UNITED STATES NE
=. GROES ACCORDING TO FIG
URES OF LAST CENSUS.
Aided BY Immigrants
Arc Whites Whose Percentage Of
Increase Is Much Greater Than
That of Colored PeopIe./ West Vir-
ginia Has Higher Rate.

cording to the returns of the thirteenth
census. the population of continental
United States, excluding Alaska, Porto
Rico and other outlaying possessions,
which was 91,972,266 in 1910, is sub
divided as to color, as follows: White
8l,732,687. or $50 per cent; Negro, g.
.S28, ,294, or 1917 per cent; all other
persons, Indian, Chinese, Japanese
ETC., 411,2S5, Or 0.4 per cent. The
white population has constituted D.
somewhat larger percentage Of the
total population, with corresponding
decrease In the percentage for the Ne
gro population. The whites now cons
tltute SS.9 per cent Of the total popu-
lation. as compared with 86.5 per cent
In 1880. whereas, the Negroes now
constitute only 1O.7 per cent of the to-
tai population, &C compared with 1871
per cent In 1880. ~----.-.-...--.---...-..- ..-..--
Ihere has been an increase IN white
population since 1900 of 14,929.491. or
z2.3 per cent, as compared with an in
crease in Negro population of $4,000
or l1,3 per cent. The excess in the
percentage of increase for the whites
immigration of foreign-born whites
during the decade. There is practical
ly no immigration Of negroes
Or the entire number of foreign-born
Wh1te- persons who were enumerated
at~the thirteenth census, about 5000.
ooo, or 81 per cent, were reported as
having come to this country since 1900.
If this number is deducted from the
increase in the white population, the
latter then becomes less than 10000
ooO, instead of IA 14,923,491, while the
percentage of increase Is not quite Is
per cent, Instead of 1913 per cent.
'fh1s figure, 15 per cent, is fairly COM
parable with the lib per cent hy
which the Negroes increased. since
each percentage may pe eccepeed as
representing approximately the natur-
al rate OF 1ncrease-that is, the in
crease resulting from the excess of
births over deaths.
Hn making these computations, how
ever. no allowance has been made for
native white persons who NAV have
em1grated from the United States.
But, as against this, no allowance eth
er has been made for the children born
IN this country whose perents have
come TO this country since 1900, and
VINO almost certainly exceed the num-
Der of emigrants.
AS against these changes in the per
centage increase for the white popula
tlon, the census shows for the Negro
population an increase Of 11.3 per cent
from 1900 to 1910, as compared with
an increase, on the face of the returns
OF IL per cent from 1890 to 1900. ana
or 1915 per cent from 1880 to 1890
That the rate for 1890 to 1900 should
greatly exceed that for the preceding
d'caoo and also that for the following
"ecece seems improbable on general
principles, and 1t has been contendcd
py certain statistical writer's that 1t is
narrative of deficient en,.neration
of the Negro population in 1889
= 1hese computations show colcInsiye-
y that the higher rate Of increase
-tor- the white population, as compared
with the Negro during the period un-
der review, is not wholly due to the
effects Of immigration. The natural
increase of the white population is on
the whole noticably greater than that
of the Negro.
Ot the total population. Of the South
in 1910, the whites constitute $50 per
cent and the, Negroes 1913 per cent, as
compared with the 67 4 and 1913 per
cent, respectively in 1000. and with
o9.9 and Sc per cent, respectively in
1880. s,sssss,zyxzyz.a
outside ~ the SO lth there has been
an increase Of white population during
the decade from 50,287 1896 to 61 1885,.
LA, the growth thus being 1O,897 1885,
or III per cent. The Negro popu7a-
tor outside tie South has grown
en- 911,025 to 1.078,904, VII by i67..
s." equal to 1N.4 per cent.
The Increase Of the white ro,m1s-
ton in the North and West is largely
influenced by foreign immigration,
while the increase of the Negro popu-
latton in those sections is in part the
result Of the migration of Nesroes
from the South.
In South Carolina and HItssissippi
the Negroes exceed the whites. In wcs
Virginia, Arkansas, and Oklahoma
N" Negroes constitute a slightly
larger proportion Of the total popula-
tion, principally as the result of the
migration Of Negroes from other
States. In every Southern State, with
the exception of West Virginia, Ar.
kansas ana Oklahoma, the whites bat
a nighe" rate of in>rosse thai lhG
Negroes,