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Excerpt from The Redistribution of the American Negro
South remained in 1860 almost entirely dependent upon agriculture, and held only 30% of the white population of the United States, but almost 95% of the black. The blacks then constituted more than one-third of its total population, the numbers stated in thousands being 000 whites and blacks. In 1920 the numbers were whites and blacks, the blacks consti tuting less than one-fourth of the total. Of the three divisions into which the black majority counties fell on my map, the Texas Black Belt was never of importance except as separating two of the white majority regions. It comprised only fifteen counties irregularly grouped in the vicinity of the City of Houston. The census of 1890 showed the white rate of increase to be the greater, and in the next decade this ran up to 43% against a black rate of 16. The census of 1910 showed a white gain of only but there was a black loss of seven counties had lost their black majorities, and in the district there were whites to blacks, the black percentage fall ing in twenty years from 61 to 52. The persistence of this trend down to 1920, which may be confidently assumed, though as yet we have only the State rates of increase'f 22% for the whites and 7% for the blacks - will have caus ed the complete disappearance of the division as such. 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.
