1920 



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specified number of inhabitants and add them together.) The illiteracy 

 percentages are based on the number of persons over ten years old 

 unable to read and write. 



In both tables the highest numbers in each column are printed in 

 heavy type and the lowest in italics, to help the reader pick out the 

 extreme range of variation in South Carolina and also the salient 

 features of each region as far as they are shown by the kinds of data 

 here used. 



The influence of racial demography is illustrated still further bj^ 

 putting at the bottom of both tables separate statistics for the twenty 

 counties that have more than 40% of whites, and the 23 "blackest," 

 with less than 40% white. 



TABLE 1. POPULATIOX AND ILLITEEACY 



REGIONS, ETC. 



X 0) 



Percentage of total 



'S.t: 



Percent illiterate 



Whole state, 1880 .. 



1890 .. 

 1900 



1910 .. 



Upper Piedmont 



LoAver Piedmont 



Sand-hills 



Upper pine belt 



Lower pine belt 



Cape Fear region 



Coast Strip 



L'O wliitest counties 

 23 blackest counties 



33.0 

 38.2 

 44.4 

 49.7 



38.6 

 39.8 

 41.2 

 44.4 



0.7 

 0.5 

 0.4 

 0.4 



60.7 7.7 

 59.7 10.5 

 58.4 12.8 

 55.2 14.8 



22.4 

 18.1 

 13.6 

 10.3 



4.9 

 6.3 

 6.5 

 6.8 



78.5 

 64.1 

 52.8 

 38.7 



55.4 

 44.9 

 35.9 

 25.7 



78.1 

 53.6 

 36.4 

 45.2 

 26.9 

 S2.5 

 74.0 



68.3 

 39.6 

 53.5 

 34.2 

 36.9 

 75.1 



0.3 

 0.2 

 0.1 

 0.2 

 0.1 



31.4 

 60.2 

 45.3 

 65.6 

 63.0 



0.11^^.7 



16.8 

 11.7 



7.5 



7.3 











2.4 69.2149.5 



13.3 



7.6 

 11.5 

 10.3 



8.1 

 18.7 



2.0 



10.0 

 7.8 

 3.5 

 4.1 

 0.1 



16.0 

 6.1 



36.0 

 39.6 

 44.5 

 37.5 



M.3 

 26.4 

 26.2 

 27.6 



49.8'34.3 



41.1 21.6 

 25.9 25.2 



57.0 

 43.8 



56.7 

 31.9 



0.3 

 0.5 



42.9 15.6 

 67.6 14.0 



12.3 

 6.8 



7.6 

 6.3 



37.1 

 39.7 



22.8 



28.7 



The second ta])le is devoted to agriculture, and gives for the wliole 

 state in IftOO and TDK), for each region, and for the same two groups 

 of counties above outlined, the ratio of "improved hind in farms'' to 

 total area (expressed as a percentage), the expenditure for fertilizers 

 in the year preceding, per acre of improved land in the census year (in 

 dollars and cents), the percentage of white farnuTs, the average num- 



