[Illustration: Diagram I: PER CENT INCREASE OF WHITES AND NEGROES]
The figures for Southern cities represented in the diagram are given in Table I.
TABLE I. NUMBER AND PER CENT. INCREASE OF WHITE AND NEGRO POPULATIONS, PRINCIPAL SOUTHERN CITIES, 1860-1900.[A]
----------+---------------+-------------++---------------+------------- | Population | Increase || Population | Increase | 14 cities. | 1860-1870. || 15 cities. | 1870-1880. +-------+-------+-------+-----++-------+-------+-------+----- | 1860. | 1870. | No. | Per || 1870. | 1880. | No. | Per | | | | cent|| | | | cent ----------+-------+-------+-------+-----++-------+-------+-------+----- White |610,015|712,015|102,000| 16.7||715,887|867,403|145,081| 20.3 | | | | || | | | Negro |141,709|270,212|128,503| 90.7||272,433|341,907| 69,474| 25.5 ----------+-------+-------+-------+-----++-------+-------+-------+----- | Population | Increase || Population | Increase | 15 cities. | 1880-1890. || 16 cities. | 1890-1900. +---------------+-------+-----++---------------+-------+----- | 1890 | | Per || 1900 | | Per | | No. | cent|| | No. | cent ----------+---------------+-------+-----++---------------+-------+----- White | 1,183,419 |307,542| 35.7|| 1,429,931 |246,512| 20.8 | | | || | | Negro | 485,477 |132,316| 38.7|| 585,931 |100,054| 20.6 ----------+---------------+-------+-----++---------------+-------+----- | Population | Increase | 16 cities. | 1900-1910. +------------------------------+--------------+-------------- | 1910. | No. | Per cent +------------------------------+--------------+-------------- White | 1,817,155 | 387,224 | 27.7 | | | Negro | 706,352 | 120,821 | 20.6 ----------+------------------------------+--------------+-------------- [A] Table is based on figures compiled from Eighth Census, _Pop._, pp. 9, 19, 46, 74, 132, 195, 215, 452, 487, 519; Tenth Census, vol. i, _Pop._, pp. 416-425; Eleventh Census, vol. i, _Pop._, pp. 451-485; Twelfth Census, vol. i, pt. 2, _Pop._, pp. cxix-cxxi and _Bulletin 8, Negroes of the United States_, pp. 230-232. For 1860, compare Hoffman, _Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro_ p. 10.
Both the diagram and the table support the conclusion that the movement of the white and Negro populations to these cities have been similar under similar conditions and influences.