nst an increase of
11.2 per cent during the preceding decade. The proportion of Negroes
in the total population declined from 56.2 per cent in 1910 to 52 per
cent in 1920. In most counties of the State the percentage of Negroes
decreased and in 68 of the 82 counties there was also a decrease in
the number of Negroes.

The population of the State of Louisiana, according to the last
census, is 61 per cent white and 38.9 per cent Negro. In 1910 the
percentage of Negroes was 43.1 per cent. The Negro population, which
was 713,874 in 1910, decreased to 700,257 in 1920, a decrease of 1.9
per cent. The white population during the same period increased from
941,086 to 1,096,911, or 16.5 per cent. In most of the parishes of the
State the percentage of Negroes decreased and in 41 of the 64 parishes
there was also a decrease in the number of Negroes. In the city of New
Orleans, however, the development was the other way. In 1920 the city
had 285,913 whites and 100,918 Negroes. The white population
constituted 73.8 per cent of the total in 1920 and 73.6 per cent in
1910 while the Negro population constituted 26.1 per cent of the total
in 1920 and 26.3 per cent in 1910. The increase in the white
population since 1910 was 36,510, or 14.6 per cent, while the
corresponding increase in the Negro population was 11,656, or 13.1 per
cent.

Statistics place South Carolina in middle ground. In 1920 there were
in that State 818,538 whites and 864,719 Negroes. The corresponding
figures for 1910 were 679,161 whites and 835,843 Negroes. The rate of
increase in the white population was 20.5 per cent as compared with
21.8 per cent for the period from 1900 to 1910. The percentage of
increase between 1910 and 1920 in the Negro population was only 3.5
per cent, a rate slightly more than half as great as the corresponding
one for the decade from 1900 to 1910, when it was 6.8 per cent. The
proportion of Negroes in the total population declined from 55.2 per
cent in 1910 to 51.4 per cent in 1920. In the city of Charleston there
were 35,617 whites and 32,292 Negroes. The white population
constituted 52.4 per cent of the total in 1920 and 47.2 per cent of
the total in 1910 and 52.8 per cent in 1900. The increase in the white
population since 1910 was 17,853, or 28.3 per cent, while the
corresponding increase in the Negro population was 1,236, or 4 per
cent.

Some other Southern States did not have the usual increase in the
Negro population, but nevert