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negligible. These coefficients are compared graphically in 

 Diagram II. 



The other factors which might be correlated with popu- 

 lation increase in order to exhaust possible causes would 

 be : Increase in rural laborers other than farmers. 2. Social 

 causes such as lynching, injustice in the courts, jim crow 

 cars, etc. As to other rural laborers, the largest groups 

 in the State in 1900 were comprised of the 8,000 turpentine 

 laborers, and the approximately 5,000 laborers in sawmills 

 and lumber gangs. These numbers are insignificant in influ- 

 encing the population, which contains 122,000 independent 

 farmers and 110,000 farm laborers (not working on 

 home farm). As to the social causes, such as 

 lynching, injustices in the courts, jim crow cars. It must 

 be said that there is no way of tracing a direct relation- 

 ship of these causes to the movement from one rural dis- 

 trict to another within the South. They operate to a larger 

 extent in the movement from country to city. Inasmuch 

 as lynching is sporadic and affects directly only a small 

 proportion of the population over a short period of time, its 

 effects are difficult to determine unless by first hand investi- 

 gation immediately after the disturbance. This is more 

 fully discussed in the latter part of this chapter devoted to 

 the migration of 1916-17. Inasmuch as the attitude towards 

 the Negro in the courts, and in public carriers and institu- 

 tions, is uniform throughout Georgia, it cannot be counted 

 among the causes of movement from one part of the State 

 to another. Increase in number of Negro farmers, of all 

 classes, therefore, stands out as the predominating' cause 

 for movement from one rural district to another. 



But as noted in Part I, this number of Negro 

 farmers is composed of three classes, share tenants, cash 

 tenants, and owners. The third, fourth, and fifth correla- 

 tion coefficients shown above were worked out to measure 

 the relation between the increase in these three classes with 

 the increase in population. 



