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much as the former move is Northward and the latter mainly 

 Westward into the Gulf Coast- Wiregrass strip of territory, 

 the general trend of the movement of Negro population may 

 be said to be Northward and Westward. 



In the United States, in 1910, the Negroes reported their 

 State of Birth as follows : 7 



TABLE 18. 

 Residence of Negroes Born in the South 



Per Cent of 

 Number Born Negroes Born 

 Residing in in the South in the South 



The United States— 



1910 9,109,153 100.0 



1900 8,216,458 100.0 



Increase 892,695 



The South— 



1910 8,668,619 95.2 



1900 7,866,807 95.7 



Increase 801,812 



The North and West— 



1910 440,534 4.9 



1900 349,651 4.4 



Increase 90,883 



That is to say that, in 1900, 349,651 Southern born Ne- 

 groes were living in the North and West, but this number 

 represented only 4.4 per cent of all Southern born Negroes. 

 The number of Southern born Negroes in the country in- 

 creased almost 900,000 between 1900 and 1910, but the num- 

 ber of Southern born Negroes living in the North increased 

 only about 91,000. This means that for each southern-born 

 increase the migrant group. But this number was hardly 

 sufficient to materially alter the proportion of southern- 

 born Negroes living in the North, because in 1900 only 4.5 

 per cent of all southern-born Negroes lived in the North, 

 and by 1910 this proportion had increased very slightly to 

 4.9 per cent. 



Among Georgia-born Negroes the inter-state migration 

 before 1910 is indicated as follows : 8 



7 Negro Population, 1790-1915, pp. 66-67. 



8 Negro Population in the U. S., 1790-1915, p. 81. Census of 

 1900, Population, p. 702. 



