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6,996,166 were colored, and 10,888 were Chinese, Japanese, 

 and Indians. 



The Bulletin goes on to state : " The abnormal increase of 

 the colored population in what is known as the black belt 

 during the decade ending in 1880 led to the popular belief 

 that the negroes were increasing at a much greater rate than 

 the white population. This error was a natural one, and 

 arose from the difficulty of ascertaining how much of the in- 

 crease shown by the Tenth Census was real and how much 

 was due to the omissions of the Census of 1870. This ques- 

 tion has been fully discussed in Bulletin No. 16, and it is now 

 merely necessary to add that the tabulations herewith given 

 sustain the theory already advanced, that the high rate of 

 increase in the growth of the colored population as shown in 

 1880 was apparent, not real, and was due to imperfect enu- 

 meration in the Southern States in 1870. 



" Attention is first called to Table I, on the following page, 

 showing the white and the colored population of the states under 

 discussion at each census since 1790, together with the num- 

 ber of colored to each one hundred thousand white and the 

 percentage of increase respectively, of white and colored for 

 the several decades. 



" The table summarizes the entire case. In r 890 there were 

 in the States under discussion 6,996,166 colored inhabitants, 

 and in 1880, 6,142,360. The colored element increased dur- 

 ing the decade at the rate of 13.90 per cent. The white pop- 

 ulation of these states in 1890 numbered 16,868,205, and in 

 1880, 13,530,408. They increased during the decade at the 

 rate of 24.67 per cent, or nearly twice as rapidly as the colored 

 element. 



"In 1880 the proportion of white to persons of color in 

 these states was in the relation of 100,000 to 45,397. In 1890 

 the proportion of the latter class had diminished, being then 

 as 100,000 to 41,475. 



