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mains to be considered. The place map of urban popula- 

 tion shows, of course, a concentration in the upper 

 northeastern segment of the United States. But the simi- 

 lar map for country population shows almost as great a 

 density in the South, east of the Mississippi River, as in 

 the East and North. The densest country population in 

 the South clearly follows the outline of the mountain sec- 

 tion of eastern Tennessee, Kentucky, and western North 

 Carolina. "There, although only a small part of the land 

 is cultivated, the population is denser than in Illinois 

 and Iowa where practically all the land is farmed." 

 Country population, however, is much more concentrated 

 in the Cotton Belt than in the Corn Belt. In the West the 

 Texas Black Lands stand out because of dense rural 

 population. The mapping of villages shows concentration 

 in the East, and near the areas of large cities. There is 

 very little discernable relation to the configurations of 

 the various cotton belts except that the Black Prairie 

 again stands out in Texas. The Alabama Black Land 

 Belt and the Mississippi Bottoms show a sparsity rather 

 than a density of villages. 54 The distribution maps of 

 Negro and white rural population 55 indicate that the 

 Negro follows the contour of the areas of cotton produc- 

 tion to a remarkable extent. The Eastern Belt, the Ala- 

 bama Black Lands, and the Mississippi River Bottoms 

 again stand out. The Negro population extends outside 

 the Belt northward along the eastern fringe, farther into 

 the rural districts of Virginia, Maryland, and Kentucky. 

 The Texas and Oklahoma cotton areas are notably given 

 over to native whites. The density of the white popula- 



53 "Rural Population and Organization," Atlas of American Agri- 

 culture, Part IX, Sec. I, p. 4. 



54 Ibid., Fig. 4, p. 5. 55 Ibid., Figs. 10, 13, pp. 7, 8. 



