The Diversity of Migrations ioi 



ante-bellum Black Belt. This area contains 27 of the de- 

 creasing counties, while the upper Piedmont contains only 

 7 and the Wiregrass 3. The areas increasing slowly em- 

 brace 25 counties, which lie mostly on the borders of the 

 Black Belt. Two of these counties are on the border of the 

 southwest Black Belt, only 7 on the edges of the central 

 Black Belt, 8 in the Upper Piedmont and 7 in Wiregrass. 

 Of the 36 rapidly increasing counties, 24 are in the 

 Wiregrass and the adjacent southwest IBlack Belt sec- 

 tion; 5 are in the Upper Piedmont 6 are on the borders 

 of the Black Belt. 



It may therefore be said that the ante-bellum central 

 and coast Black Belts are losing, the borders of the Black 

 Belt, including most of the Upper Piedmont, gaining slowly, 

 the Wiregrass and southwest Black Belt gaining rapidly. 



Numerically this migration may be calculated by grouping 

 the counties according to their shading on Map II into the 

 following table: 



TABLE 16. 

 Migration of Negroes in Georgia,( 7 ) 1900-1910. 

 Excess of 

 Negro Births Actual Migration 

 Popu- over Increase Indicated 

 lation, Deaths at 1900- by Dif- 

 Districts 1900 IS Per cent 1910 ference 

 Rural- 

 Mountain 10,017 1,503 —1,171 —2,674 



Areas losing... 249,659 37,449 —1,301 —38,750 

 Stationary 



areas ....... 54,854 8,228 6,011 —2,217 



Areas gaining 



slowly 142,268 21,340 24,961 3,621 



Areas gaining 



rapidly 231,326 34,699 61,446 26,747 



Rural area of 

 counties con- 

 taining a city 185,628 27,844 —11,537 —39,381 

 Cities 161,061 24,159 63,765 39,606 



TOTAL 1,034,813 155,222 142,174 —13,048 



T Computed from U. S. Census, 1910, Negro Population in the 

 United States, 1790-1915, Table II. A check on this method 



