The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-12-27
ME SOUTHERN NEGRO
STICKS CLOSE TO HOME
LENDERS OF BLACK RAG E
BORN IN NORTH OR WEST
MIGRATE MORE FREELY. !,
large NUMBER LEAVE SOUTH
According to Figures Announced by
The Census Bureau Over 10000
Have Gone From Georgia to Penn
svIvania in Ten Years.

The census bureau ONeh AO'"VN
Have Gone From Georgia to Penn
svlvania in Ten Years.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-The de
o,rtment of commerce, through the
bureau of the census, has today ISSUED
.oecial statement pertaining to negro
mipration in the United States, a:
shown by the returns of the fourteenth
decennial census, taken as OF Janaury
l. 1920.
The total number of negroes born
n and living in the United States
oroper, as enumerated for January l.
lQ2O was 1881, 309, which total in
cludes 38,575 negroes for whom the
state of birth was not ascertamed by
The enumerators. The total number Tor
whom the state of birth was reported,
i0342734, comprised 8,288,492, or 80.1
opr cent, who were living in the states
n which born, and 2,054,242, or 1919
ner cent. who were living in other
states. In 1910 the percentage living
IN other states was 100 and in 1900
/ # was 1876.
The total number of negroes report
ed as born in the south Chat part OF
i the country lying south of the southern
boundaries OF New Jersey, Pennsylva-
MA Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri
and Kansas was 9,600,942. OF these,
T5l,361, or 80.7 per cent, were l1v-
ing in their native states in 1920; J.
O68788, or Ill per cent, were living
in other southern states, and /8O,|9+,
or 81 per cent, were living in the
north or west. The total number OF
negroes reported as born in the north
or west was 7417o1, of whom 537 Isl
or 72.4 per cent, were living in Their
native states in 1920; Isl, 437, or 2l.Z
oer cent. were living in other northern
or western states; and H,223, or o.
per cent, were living in the south.
Thus the proportion of southern born
negroes who migrated to the north or
west, 81 per cent, was only about one
fourth larger than the proportion OF
the negroes who were born ~ the
north and west and migrated to the
south, GA per cent.
The number of negroes born III the
less the number born in the north , or
west and living in the SOUTH was 1896
H. These may be termed the sur
urors of the net migration OF negroes
nom the south to the north and west
The number of southern-born negroes
living in the north and west increased
rom 440. 534 in 1910 to 78O,794 II
1920 forming 400 per cent OF the 10,
tai negro population of the north ano
west in the earlier year and oO.o pei
cent in the latter.
The migration of southern negroes
to northern and western states un
doubtedly took place to a materially
greater extent between 1910 and l9I'
than during the preceding decade
While it is impossible to calculate eX
actlv the extent OF this migration dur
ing the recent decade, the available
data indicate that approximately 4oo,
GOO. or somewhat more than one-hal
Of the 1851 survivors OF the net ne
gro migration from the south to tn
north and west prior to January |
1920, left the south subsequently Il
April Is, 1910. =,
In general, the negroes born IN IN
north and west and in the northern
part of the south have migrated TO
much greater extent than those borl
in the far south. Considering as on
group all the negroes born IN tn
northern and western states, the per
centage living in 1920 in other state
than those in which born was H..
Il per cent; considering as another groul
those born in Delware, Maryland, Dis
rict of Columbia, Virginia, West V1r
ginia. North Carolina, Kentucky, en-
nessee. Arkansas and Oklahoma. e.
the northern part of the south-tha
corresponding percentage was Z4:o
but for the negroes born IN the Id
southern states of South Carolina
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, LOUIS
lana and Texas, the percentage hvln!
in states other than those in whic'
born was only 16.2.
Although migration to the north an
west has not taken place. among IN
lar southern negroes to the same eN
tent, relatively to their total nurllDel
as among the negroes in the mortimer
part of the south, there was neVer'ile
less a pronounced increase in such nj
grafton from the far south during tn
past decade. For example: The ne
groes who were born in South Caro-
Ina and had migrated from that stat
to Pennsylvania increased from E,ll
in 1910 to 11,624 in 1920; those iron
i Georgia to Pennsylvania increase
\ from 1873 to 1916; those from loTj
Il da to Pennsylvania from 1913 to o,o|O
\ those from Alabama to Ohio, tror
ISL to II 588. those from Mississippi
to illinois, from 4,612 to l9,.409; tho nos
81 from Louisiana to Illinois, from I'oo
to S,078; and those from Texas to MIS-
souri,, from 1907 to 4,344.