CHAPTER IV. 

 THE RESULTS OF MIGRATION 



Such a volume of movement as has been described in pre- 

 ceding chapters can but have profound effects upon the 

 Negro population and upon the communities gaining or 

 losing by migration. Some description of these effects is 

 necessary before the study is complete. 



Almost all of the so-called Negro problems are com- 

 plicated by the fact that there are many migrants in the 

 colored population. To trace fully the detailed results of 

 migration would require a rather ambitious treatment of 

 many different phases of the Negro question. The best 

 that can be done in the remainder of this study is to out- 

 line some of the most patent effects. Even these are not 

 presented in detail. The brief treatment given, however, 

 indicates that some abnormalities which are often said to 

 be due to traits inherent in the Negro race may be largely 

 explained by the abnormal number of migrants in the 

 population. M any students of the ra ce problems have tended 

 to attribute ab normalities in sex" distrib ution, fecundity, 

 vitali ty, crim inality, insanit y, and evert in, Negro insti- 

 tutions almost entirely to inherent traits of racial he redity. 



it is not withm the province Of this volume to determine 

 the extent to which the Negro has a different racial heredity 

 from the white man. In trying to do this we would be com- 

 pelled to traverse too much debatable ground. Anthro- 

 pologists, physiologists and psychologists have too many 

 points to settle before this question can be answered 

 with any degree of scientific accuracy. If, however, it 

 appears that many of the peculiarities in population and 

 institutions can, in a large measure, be accounted for by 



