The Diversity of Migrations 95 



but on account of 10 years' growth they were enumerated 

 as urban by the census of 1910. Such a change, of course, 

 does not indicate as large a migration as might be assumed 

 from the statistics of increase in urban population. It 

 therefore appears that while there is a distinct trend toward 

 urbanization, the movements of paramount importance in 

 Georgia are those arising from the shifting of farm popula- 

 tion. 



THE RURAL DISTRICTS. 



1. Villages. — The census calls any town of less than 2,500 

 inhabitants a rural community. In some sections of the 

 country this renders their classification deceptive. Some 

 unincorporated rural communities are very thickly popu- 

 lated, while some towns, with wide limits of incorporation 

 are thinly populated and concerned chiefly with agricultural 

 interests rather than with manufacture and trade. They 

 depend upon the surrounding agricultural areas for food 

 and raw materials. It is obvious that in these cases the 

 census classification would be inaccurate. In manufactur- 

 ing sections it would include too much. Suburbs of cities, 

 outside of corporate limits, and manufacturing villages of 

 less than 2,500 inhabitants whose occupations are not in any 

 sense rural, and whose homes are clustered city fashion, 

 around a large manufacturing plant, are obviously not as 

 rural as towns slightly over 2,500 which depend for the 

 support of their activities on surrounding farming popula- 

 tions. Such inaccuracies do not apply to any great extent to 

 Georgia, or for that matter, to any part of the Cotton Belt. 



The following table indicates the proportion of the total 

 population in 1910 which was living in villages of between 

 250 and 2,500 inhabitants and which was classed as rural 

 by the census. The "rural" counties are grouped accord- 

 ing as they are losing by migration, gaining slowly or gain- 

 ing rapidly. 2 (See shading of Map II.) 



2 Computed from U. S. Census of 1910, Population, Vol. II. 

 Analysis for "Georgia," Table 1, giving population of "Minor 

 Civil Divisions." 



