POPULATION. 



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TABLE 24. 



Population statistics of southern Alabama, 1880-1900. 



The same relations between population density, negro 

 percentage and soil fertility already pointed out are appar- 

 ent here, except that about 1889 the eastern division of the 

 red hills overtook the western division in density of popu- 

 lation, presumably with the aid of commercial fertilizers, as 

 explained in the regional description. The average migra- 

 tion distance is naturally greatest where the population in- 

 creases most rapidly. 



CONDITIONS IN 1910. 



For 1910 (Table 25) an extra column is added for the 

 lime-sink region, and extra lines for urban population, for- 

 eigners, and the red and yellow races ; and an extra section 

 for illiteracy statistics. 



Foreigners are much more abundant in the two coast 

 counties than elsewhere, for more or less obvious reasons, 

 but even there their numbers are not conspicuous. The 

 "other races" are Indians, Chinese and Japanese, the first 



