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about 43,641 Negroes by migration. The slowly 

 increasing counties of the Piedmont and borders of the 

 Black Belt gained about 3,621 and the rapidly increasing 

 Wiregrass about 26,747. As a whole the urban counties 

 gained only about 200. Within these urban counties there 

 was a loss of the rural districts to the cities both by exten- 

 sion of city boundaries to include rural areas, and by migra- 

 ton, for while the total population of these counties was 

 practically stationary, the population of the towns increased 

 by 39,606, and the population of adjacent rural districts de- 

 creased 39,387. 



DIAGRAM I. 



RELATION OF INCREASE IN NEGRO POPULATION 

 TO INCREASE IN NEGRO FARMERS, 1900-10. 

 (Counties grouped according to shading of Map 



XI.) 



Counties grouped ac- 

 cording to movement 

 of population. 



Losing (Mountains) 



Losing (Blaok Belt) 



Percentage of Increase In: 

 Population ■■ Farmers V7A 



Stationary 



Gaining Slowly 



Gaining Rapidly 



The fact that the mountain counties included less than one 

 per cent of the Negroes of the State in 1900 and that these 

 small numbers are dwindling, warrants their exclusion from 

 any further study of Negro migration. The Negroes in 

 these counties are the descendants of the few slaves who 

 were owned in this section. For the present, therefore, the 

 migration from the Black Belt rural counties to the Piedmont 

 and Wiregrass rural counties will be analyzed more closely. 



As to the causes of this movement : We may dismiss almost 



