NEGRO POPULATION IN THE NORTH AND IN THE SOUTH. Negro population outside of the South in 1900 was 911,025; in 1910 it was 1,078,336 and in 1920 it was 1,550,900. This was an increase from 1900 to 1910 of 167,311 or 18.4 per cent and from 1910 to 1920 of 472,564 or 43.8 per cent. NEGRO POPULATION OF NORTHERN AND WESTERNISTATES WHITE AND NEGRO POPULATION IN THE SOUTH BY STATES, 1900, 1910, 1920 The South South Atlantic Delaware.. 24,132,214 20,547,455 16,521,970 8,912,259 8,749,427 7,922,969 9,648,940 8,071,603 6,706,051 4,325,120 4,112,488 3,729,017 192,615 171,102 153,977 30,335 31,181 Maryland 1,204,737 1,062,639 952,424 244,479 232,250 30.697 235,064 Dist. of Columbia 94,446 86,702 64,173 43,499 North Carolina. 624,466 864,719 835,843 782,321 1,176,987 1,034,813 Virginia West Virginia South Carolina East South Central Kentucky. Tennessee Alabama 818,538 679,161 557,807 308,669 230,730 2,652,513 2,499,886 261,656 284,706 451,758 473,088 480,243 900,652 908,282 935,184 1,009,487 1,447,032 1,228,832 1,001,152 827,307 Mississippi. 853,962 786,111 641,200 907,630 West South Central. 8,115,727 6,721,491 4,771,065 2,063,579 1,984,426 1,694,066 Arkansas Texas 1,279,757 1,031,026 1,096,611 941,086 944,580 472,220 1,821,194 144,531 670,204 PER CENT WHITE AND NEGRO OF TOTAL POPULATION OF THE SOUTH 1900, 1910, 1920 State and Division Whit Negro White Negro White Negro White Negro White Negro In Spite of Migration No Great Change In Percentage Number Persons Living Outside State Of Birth. Of the 10,381,309 Negroes reported by the 1920 census as being born in the United States, the state of birth of 38,575 was not ascertained by the enumerators The total number for whom the state of birth was reported, 10,342,734, comprised 8,288,492 or 80.1 per cent who were living in the states in which they were born and 2,054,242 or 19.9 per cent who were living in other states In spite of the migration of 19161920 the number of Negroes living outside of the state of birth is but little greater than it was in the two previous decades In 1910 the percentage living in other states was 16.6 and in 1900 it was 15.6 Of the total number of Negroes reported as being born in the South, 9,600,943, it was found that 7,751,361 or 80.7 per cent were living in their native states and 1,068,788 or 11.1 per cent were living in other Southern States and 780,794, or 8.1 per cent were living in the North or West. The number born in the South and now living in the North, 780,794 is 330,260 more than the number from the South, 440,534, who were living in the North in 1910. Of the number of Negroes reported as being born in the North and West, 741,791, it was found that 537,131 or 72.4 per cent were living in the States in which they were born; 157,437 or 21.2 per cent were living in other northern or western States and 47,223 or 6.4 per cent were living in the South. Migration Negroes North The 1920 census shows that the proportion of southern born Negroes who had migrated to the North or West was 8.1 per cent of the total Negroes born in the South and that this was only about one-fourth larger than the proportion of Negroes who were born in the North or West and had migrated to the South, 6.4 per cent It is noteworthy that while the migration of Negroes to the North goes on, the migration of Negroes to the South continues and that the number of Negroes, 47,223 living in the South in 1920 was 5,734 more than the number, 41,489 from the North or West who were living in the South in 1910 GAIN NORTH AND WEST AND LOSS OF SOUTH BY INTERSTATE MIGRATION 1870-1920 The census statistics indicate that in general Negroes born in the North or West and in the northern part of the South have migrated to a much larger extent than those born in the far South. It is found that 27.6 per cent of Negroes born in the North or West are living in other states than those in which they were born. Of those born in the states of the upper South that is, Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas and Oklahoma, the corresponding percentage was 24.8 per cent. Of the Negroes born in the lower southern states, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, only 16-2 per cent were living outside of the states in which they were born." Greatest Movement Negroes Within Southern States Has Been To South And West. It is found that as a result of the recent migration that there has been a pronounced increase in the migration from the far south as for example: the Negroes (3) Less than one-tenth of one per cent. |