134 Negro Migration 



TABLE 19. 

 Residence of Negroes Born in Georgia. 



Number Number Increase Per cent 



in 1910 in 1900 1900-1910 Increase 



Total born in Georgia. 1,248,352 1,090,336 158,016 14.5 



Living in Georgia... 1,097,257 958,245 139,012 14.5 



" in other States 151,095 132,091 19,004 14.4 



" "Florida.... 45,699 27,744 17,955 64.7 



" "Alabama... 31,202 31,106 96 .3 



" "Tennessee.. 13,075 11,250 1,825 16.3 



" "Arkansas.. 10,013 11,495 —1,482 —13.1 



" " other South- 



" " em States 28,313 38,022 —9,709 —25.3 



Total So. States 128,302 1 19,617 8,685 7.4 



Living in N. Y 3,792 1,925 1,867 97.0 



" Illinois . . . 2,874 1,674 1,200 71.7 



" N. J 1,578 490 1,088 222.4 



All other 14,549 8,385 6,164 71.0 



Total Non-Southern 



States 22,793 12,474 10,319 82.7 



This indicates that in 1900 there were 132,091 Georgia 

 born Negroes who had migrated to other States. Of these, 

 however, only 12,474 lived in Northern and Western States 

 and 119,617 in Southern States, i. e., only 1.1 per cent of the 

 total Georgia-born Negroes had moved outside the South, 

 and 10.9 per cent had moved to other States in the South. 

 By 1910 the number of Georgia-born migrants outside of the 

 South had increased to 22,793, an increase of 10,300. As- 

 suming that the death rate of Georgia-born in the North was 

 about 25 per thousand, per year, this means that some 13,000 

 Georgia-born Negroes moved North during the decade. 

 This is less than 1.3 per cent of the Georgia Negroes in 

 1900. 



Although the No rth wnrd moypm°nt has been gaining 

 headway, it appears that the important shift b efore 1910 

 wa_s to other Southern States. The earlier m igrations from 

 Georgia were Southward int oJTlorida and the W iregrass 

 lands ot Alabama, and Westward into M ^issippi, Louisi- 

 ana, Texas and Arkan sas. The Census of 1890 showed 

 12,993 Georgia-born Negroes in Mississippi, 11,736 in Texas, 



