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Table 268. — Comparison of northern and southern negroes. Percentage distribution by letter grade. 



A further indication of difference between northern and southern negroes is to be found 

 in the percentage of men who received their final rating on alpha, beta, and individual examina- 

 tion, respectively. Table 269 gives the percentages of men in the different States in the 

 northern and southern groups who received their final grade on alpha, beta (including alpha- 

 beta), and individual examination, respectively. The table also gives similar percentages for 

 the two groups as a whole. It will be observed that the percentage of alphas is very much 

 smaller and the percentage of betas very much larger in the southern than in the northern 

 group. The percentage of individual examinations is small in both groups, but this is due to 

 camp procedure which allowed many group examination failures to go without reexamination, 

 especially when the number to be examined was large. This difference between northern and 

 southern negroes in the number taking alpha and beta, respectively, is partly indicative of a 

 difference in literacy between northern and southern negroes, and this in turn is closely 

 related to the matter of schooling. The question of the schooling of the negro is considered 

 in chapter 10. 



Table 269. — Comparison of northern and southern negroes. Percentage of cases receiving final rating on the different 



examinations. 



Camp reports substantially bear oat the results obtained from the Hollerith principal 

 sample as far as the comparisons between negroes and whites and between northern and 

 southern negroes are concerned. A percentage distribution of letter grades of 32,916 was 

 made up in December, 1918, on the basis of reports on draft quotas from oamps Bowie, Dodge, 



