ii2 Negro Migration 



the Census figures on rural population increases in the 

 county inexact. 3 



The 100 counties remaining after eliminations were made 

 are arranged in the order of their increase in Negro popu- 

 lation. This increase is shown in Column I. Column II 

 shows the increase in farms operated by Negroes in each 

 county. The average increase in Negro population and the 

 average increase in independent Negro farmers was then 

 obtained. By subtracting the average increase in population 

 or farms from the increases of each individual county the 

 extent to which the counties deviate from this average is 

 obtained. Column III shows these deviations of the in- 

 creases in population in every county from the average in- 

 crease in population. Column IV shows the deviations of 

 the increases in farms. 



In this table, especially the columns showing the devia- 

 tions from the averages, the eye can easily follow the rela- 

 tionship between the two movements. If, in a given county, 

 both the farm increase and the population increase are below 

 the average, then both deviations bear the minus sign. If 

 both are above the average, they bear the plus sign. In either 

 of these cases a positive relation is implied. If, however, the 

 population increase, in a county, is less than the average for 



8 The counties omitted were: Mountain counties, with very 

 small Negro populations (see Legend Map II) ; Clarke and 

 Oglethorpe counties, on account of mutual adjustment of boun- 

 daries and suburban areas; Bibb, Fulton, Richmond, Chatham, 

 Sumpter, Muscogee, Elbert, Cobb, Dekalb, Troup, Colquitt, Car- 

 roll, Newton, Houston and Brooks, on account of Urban and 

 Suburban areas included as rural in one census or the other. 

 Groups in which new counties were created between 1900 and 

 1910 were treated as follows: Population for all counties in 

 the area was figured in 1900 and 1910. The increase of the 

 whole area was treated as uniform. That is to say it was 

 divided equally among the counties which composed the area 

 in 1900 and is carried that way in the table. These groups are 

 listed as such at the foot of the table. 



