Holmes County herald., 1963-07-04

State Welfare commissioned, TiSo
A. Ross, told the Waynesboro Rotary
Club in an address recently that a stu
dy of census and population trends re-
veal clearly why the Kennedys, the
controlled national news media and
professional Negro agitators have
drummed up a racial crisis Just PRIOR
to the 1864 presidential election. Inc
Negro block vote provided the small
percentaee margin that elected Knne-
DIV in 1860. and he knows his only
chance to get reelected in 1864 is the
Negro block vote"
There are growing indications that a
white block vote is developing throu
ghout the nation, especially in the
South. 1t is clear that in at least nv
or six southern states the white block
vote is not going to go for the Kenne-
dys regardless Of who the Republicans
nominate" he said.
THE effect of Negro migration
means that more Negroes are now IN
North and West than there is in the
South. In the II southern states in
1910. there lived 90 percent Of the
total Negro population; in all states
outside the South in 1910, there lived
81 percent of the total U. 5. Negro
population. BY 1868, only 49 percent
of the total U. S. Negro population "
ed in southern states, while 81 per
cent of the total U. S. Negro PoPuia-
ton lived in other states outside the
South. There was a 20 percent reduc-
tion in the southern states while there
was a 20 percent increase in Negro
noDuIation in all other states, ne SAID.
To-day three-fourths of all Negroes
outside the South live in 8 states -
California, IIIinos, Maryland. Mich,
gan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio ana
PENNSYLVANIA" Ross said census rig
ures reveal. -,
Here r 10 cities with the most
NEGROES: 1879 percent Of the people
of New York City are egroes; LIZ
percent of the population OF Ch'oaeo
is Negro; 2o.4 percent Of the PoPula,
tion Of Philadelphia is Negro; ~
percent of the population of Detroit IS
Negro; $50 percent Of the population
of Washington, D. c. is Negro; 80
percent of the population Of Los Ange-
les is Negro; BAT percent OF the PoPu-
Iation of Baltimore is Negro; $50 per-
cent of the population OF Cleveland IS
Negro; 37.2 percent Of the population
Of New Orleans is Negro; 22.9 percent
of the population Of Houston is Neg
re-. About one-fourth Of all Negroes IN
the United States live in these ~ CIT,
les. of which only 2 are in the South,
Ross said.
As Negroes have migrated from the
South, the natural phenomena which
DroDagandists call segregation has
spread to cities of the North and
West. because birds OF a featner
flock together" he said. Washington
D. c. has a higher proportion OF Neg
roes than any other American city :
$50 percent. THAT is why its public
school system is now a jungle, he
said. Atlanta is 38.l percent Negroes;
St. Louis is 28.6 percent. These fig
ures are for central-city populations,
1860 census, U. S. Census Bureau,
Ross said.
''In all big cities outside the South,
census records show that as Negroes
moved into central cities the white
people fled to the suburbs because
birds of a feather flock together Ross
charged.
in typical northern and western
cities, this was the pattern OF growth
between 1850 and 1860, when the
number of Negroes was growing rapid
Iy in each city: In New York central :
city population went down IA per-
cent while the suburbs population
went up Isl percent. THAT, mind
you is a city where u national rad
10 and teIevision commentators live,
and where SO many crocodile tears a.
bout the poor Negroes in the South are
shed daily" he stated.
In Chicago the central-city popu-
Iation between 1850 and 1860 was
down 20 percent, while the suburbs
population was up It's percent" be-
cause the whites were escaping to
the suburbs to avoid birds Of a feath-
er not fIocking together.