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Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri show a decreasing Negro 

 farm population, and the increase in cities is small. The 

 rural popualtion of West Virginia was increasing through 

 mining rather than agricultural opportunities, and Texas 

 and Oklahoma, though Southern States, do not belong to 

 the old Cotton Belt. In the Cotton States, on the other 

 hand, the rural districts seem to be holding their own, and 



/the increase in towns is rapid. 1 

 typical of the group of States which lie along the Atlantic 

 and Gulf Coasts from North Carolina to Louisiana. This 

 map is shaded to show the rate of increase in Negro rural 

 population of each of the States having a considerable num- 

 ber of Negroes between 1900 and 1910, and a symbol is 

 inserted in each State to show the rate of Negro increase 

 in cities during the same period. 2 



In every Cotton State except Alabama, Louisiana and 

 Texas the rural districts show increases ranging from 5 to 

 9 per cent. In Florida the rural increase is 21 per cent. 

 In the urban districts, or places whose population is over 

 2,500, the per cent of increase in the colored population 

 ranged from 20.6 in South Carolina to 80.3 in Florida. 

 Georgia, therefore, with an increase of 9.0 per cent in rural 

 Negroes and 39.6 per cent in urban Negroes may be con- 

 J It appears from Map 1 (previous page) that Georgia is 



1 Jones, Thomas Jesse, Annals of the American Academy of 

 Political and Social Science, September, 1913. "The study of 

 the county population of the more southern South from South 

 Carolina to Louisiana, presents a very different situation as re- 

 gards the movement of the white and Negro population from 

 that of the Border States. *** Each of the Cotton States with 

 their large Negro population shows a stability of population and 

 a prevalence of gains that contrasts quite strikingly with the 

 losses and differences of the Border States. The population 

 movements (of white and colored people) of these States seem 

 to be governed by the same forces. At any rate the two classes 

 of the population apparently move and increase together" 



2 Map 1 is based upon census figures quoted in Table 1. 



