n6 Negro Migration 



In interpreting these coefficients, which are population 

 with share tenancy, .600, with cash tenancy .499, with owner- 

 ship .462, it is to be remembered that these tenant classes 

 may increase in four ways in a given area. 



1. Through the entrance into the class of a man who has 

 previously been living in the area but who was in some 

 other class of farm population, i. e., a change in tenure 

 status without a movement. 



2. Through the entrance into one of the classes of a 

 man from some other county who had either been an agri- 

 cultural laborer or who had not been engaged in agriculture. 



3. Through the movement of men from one county to 

 another without a change in their tenure status. 



4. Through the movement of men from one county to 

 another in order to effect the change from one tenure class 

 to another. 



The correlation coefficients showing the relation of tenure 

 classes to population are disturbed by the first group, but 

 with allowance made for this disturbance they measure 

 factors 2, 3 and 4. 



From this it is expected that share tenant increases will 

 exert the largest influence on population increases. 1. Be- 

 cause in 1900 there were more Negroes in share tenancy 

 than in any other class, and these tenants moved most fre- 

 quently. Therefore share tenants moving from one county 

 to another formed a considerable migrant population. 

 Also share tenants increase more rapidly because change 

 from laborer to share tenant is only nominal and requires no 

 capital. 



On the other hand, cash tenants were less numerous 

 to begin with, they move less, and there are fewer who 

 have ability to enter this class. The owners are still less 

 numerous, move still less, and there are still fewer who have 

 the ability to enter this class. These conditions are reflected 

 in the regular descending order of the correlation coefficients. 



It would be a mistake, therefore, to attempt to interpret 



