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Excerpt from Local Government in the South and the Southwest
In Kentucky in 1890 there were only colored to every white, and not a county in which the colored were in the majority. In Missouri there were only colored persons to white. In Tennessee there were colored to white, and three counties had more colored than white. In Arkansas there were colored to white, and in the fourteen counties possessing a majority Of colored out of seventy-eight counties of the State there were white to colored. Texas, thanks in part to a systematic and determined effort in some portions of the State to keep. Out all colored people, had only colored to white, and in only fifteen coun ties Out of two hundred and forty do the colored predominate, with to whites. In twenty-nine counties, with whites, no colored are reported in the census. In eleven others, with whites, there is only one colored person to a county. In one of these, as a resident informs me, there are numerous signboards with the inscription, Mr. Darkey, don't let sundown find you in this county! In twenty-seven other461] Local Government in South and Southwest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
