there was also a decrease in
the number of Negroes.

The border States suffered much from the migration. Kentucky,
according to the census of 1920, had 2,416,630 persons. Of these
2,180,560 were whites and 235,938 were Negroes. The corresponding
figures for 1910 were 2,027,000 whites and 261,656 Negroes. The white
population increased 7.5 per cent and the Negro population decreased
9.8 per cent. There was a decrease in the number of Negroes in 104 of
the 120 counties. The city of Covington, however, showed that while
the white population was increasing 7.4 per cent, that of the Negro
increased 4.9 per cent in contradistinction to what took place in the
State as a whole. In Louisville the increase of the white population
since 1910 was lower than that for the preceding decade, and the Negro
population increased only one-tenth of one per cent during that
period, having been 40,522 in 1910 and 40,118 in 1920.

Tennessee belongs to the declining class so far as the Negro
population is concerned. In 1920 the State had 1,885,993 whites and
451,758 Negroes. The corresponding figures for 1910 were 1,711,432
whites and 473,088 Negroes. The white population increased by 10.2 per
cent while the Negro population decreased by 4.5 per cent. In most of
the counties of the State the percentage of Negroes decreased and in
75 of the 95 counties there was also a decrease in the number of
Negroes. In Chattanooga there were 39,024 whites and 18,856 Negroes.
The figures for 1910 were 26,660 whites and 17,942 Negroes. The
increase in the white population during the decade was 12,364, or 46.4
per cent, while the corresponding increase in the Negro population was
924, or 5.1 per cent. In Knoxville there was a white population of
66,508 and a Negro population of 11,303. The figures for 1910 were
28,760 whites and 7,638 Negroes. The increase in the white population
was at a much higher rate than during the preceding decade, the
increase from 1910 to 1920 being 37,802, or 131.7 per cent, as
compared with 3,428, or 13.6 per cent, from 1900 to 1910. The increase
of the Negro population was also greater from 1910 to 1920 than from
1900 to 1910, the increase being 3,665, or 48 per cent, from 1910 to
1920 as compared with 279, or 3.8 per cent, from 1900 to 1910.

The population of Memphis included 101,117 whites and 61,173 Negroes.
The figures for 1910 were 78,590 whites and 52,441 Negroes. The
increase in the white population since 1910 was much l