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born resident of Baldwin and Escambia Counties lived 61 

 miles and of Mobile County 89 miles from his birthplace; 

 and if we had similar figures for later censuses they would 

 doubtless be higher, for the immigration from other regions 

 and states in recent years has been very noticeable. (It 

 would probably be safe to say that the majority of the adult 

 inhabitants of the southern half of Baldwin County at the 

 present time were born outside of Alabama.)* 



In Baldwin and Escambia Counties in 1880 the immigra- 

 tion from outside of the State had been mainly from Flor- 

 ida, North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia and 

 Mississippi, in the order named, while in Mobile County at 

 the same period, as far as the census returns show, the order 

 was Mississippi, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, 

 North Carolina, Tennessee, Maryland, Kentucky. (No fig- 

 ures were given for Louisiana, because in the state of Ala- 

 bama as a whole natives of Louisiana do not figure very 

 prominently; but there can be little doubt that in Mobile 

 County they were more numerous than some of the others 

 just listed.) 



The census of 1900 gives similar data for the city of 

 Mobile (not the county), and for the two races separately, 

 with the following results : Whites from Mississippi, Louis- 

 iana, Florida, Georgia, New York, Tennessee, Illinois, Ken- 

 tucky, Ohio, Virginia, South Carolina, Missouri, North 

 Carolina, Indiana, Texas. Negroes from Mississippi, Vir- 

 ginia, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Florida, South 

 Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Maryland, Texas, Missouri. 

 In 1910 the races were not separated for this purpose, and 

 the results for Mobile are as follows: Mississippi, Louis- 

 iana, Georgia, Florida, Illinois, Tennessee, New York, South 

 Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky, North Carolina, Texas, Indiana, 

 Missouri, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin. 



An interested reader can draw many curious deductions 

 from these data, which must be passed over for lack of 

 space. But attention should be called to the preponderance 

 of North Carolinians over South Carolinians in Baldwin 

 and Escambia Counties in 1880. The same state of affairs 

 existed at the same time in the corresponding parts of 



*A gentleman thoroughly familiar with Baldwin County esti- 

 mates that the population of the southern half of the county consists 

 of about 40% Southern whites, 40% Northerners, 5% foreigners, and 

 15% negroes. The Northerners are mostly from the north central 

 states. 



