920 has been the movement of the Negro
population from the southern cities to northern industrial centers,
while there was going on at the same time a movement of the rural
Negro population from the rural districts in the South into the thus
depleted southern cities to take the places of those migrating to the
North. Statistics show, therefore, a small increase or stability in
the cities of the South, whereas the Negro population of the State
increased less, remained about the same, or decidedly decreased.

Delaware, for example, although a southern State, economically
connected with the North, suffered a decrease in its population,
having lost during the decade 846 Negroes, or 2.7 per cent, as against
an increase from 1910 to 1920 of 484, or 1.6 per cent. Delaware had
492,614 whites and 30,341 Negroes in 1920. Wilmington, however, had
99,381 whites and 10,751 Negroes, showing an increase in the white
population of 26.9 per cent and in Negro population of 18.4 per cent.

In Alabama, out of the total population of 2,248,174 there are 900,652
Negroes, whereas in 1910 the Negroes numbered 908,282, showing a
decrease in numbers of 8,282, or a decrease of eight-tenths of one per
cent. In 47 of the 60 counties there was also a decrease in its number
of Negroes. Statistics further show that this decrease in the Negro
population was largely among the males and accounts for the change in
the sex ratio of the total population of Alabama. The white population
during this decade increased by 17.8 per cent. Yet the cities of
Alabama did not thus fare. In Birmingham the increase in the white
population during the decade between 1910 and 1920 was 28,193, or
35.1 per cent, while the corresponding increase in the Negro
population was 17,912, or 34.2 per cent. In Mobile the white
population increased during the same period 8,132, or 28.3 per cent,
whereas the Negro population increased 1,130, or 5 per cent, as
compared with an increase of 5,718, or 33.5 per cent, from 1900 to
1910. In Montgomery the increase in the white population was 4,828, or
25.7 per cent, while the Negro population increased 504, or 2.6 per
cent.

In 1920 the population of the State of Mississippi included 853,962
whites and 935,184 Negroes. In 1910 there were 786,111 whites and
1,009,487 Negroes. The white population increased 8.6 per cent as
compared with 22.6 per cent for the previous decade, while the Negro
population showed a decrease of 7.4 per cent as agai