ower than that
for the preceding decade, the increase from 1910 to 1920 being 22,527,
or 28.7 per cent, as compared with 26,210, or 50 per cent, from 1900
to 1910. The increase in the Negro population was greater from 1910 to
1920 than from 1900 to 1910, the increase being 8,732, or 16.7 per
cent, from 1910 to 1920 as against 2,531, or 51 per cent, from 1900 to
1910. In 1920 Nashville had 82,699 whites and 35,634 Negroes. In 1910
the corresponding numbers were 73,831 whites and 36,523 Negroes. While
the increase in the white population since 1910 was lower than that of
the preceding decade, there was a decrease in the Negro population
from 1910 to 1920, the decrease being 889, or 2.4 per cent, from 1910
to 1920, as against an increase of 6,479, or 21.6 per cent, from 1900
to 1910.

Missouri, however, forming a part of the industrial West, did not
follow the fortunes of Kentucky and Tennessee. In 1920 there were in
Missouri 3,225,044 whites and 178,241 Negroes, whereas the figures for
1910 were 3,134,932 whites and 157,452 Negroes. During the decade the
white population increased by 2.9 per cent. The population of Kansas
City was 293,532 whites and 30,706 Negroes. The white population
constituted 90.5 per cent of the total population and the Negro 9.5
per cent. The increase in the white population since 1910 was 30.6 per
cent, while the corresponding increase of the Negro population was
7,140, or 30.3 per cent. In St. Louis there were 702,764 whites and
69,603 Negroes. The increase in the white population since 1910 was
60,276, or 9.4 per cent, while the corresponding increase in the Negro
population was 25,643, or 58.3 per cent.

The more favorable condition in Missouri obtained throughout the
Southwest. In 1920 there were in Oklahoma 1,821,194 white persons and
149,408 Negroes. The corresponding figures for 1910 were 1,144,531
white persons and 137,612 Negroes. During the decade the white
population increased by 26.1 per cent, while the Negro population
increased only 8.6 per cent. The white population of Oklahoma City was
82,847 and that of the Negroes 8,269. The increase in the white
population since 1910 was 25,354, or 44.1 per cent, while the
corresponding increase in the Negro population was 1,723, or 26.3 per
cent. There were in Okmulgee 13,967 whites and 3,372 Negroes. The
white population increased since 1910 11,241, or 412.4 per cent, while
the increase in the Negro population during the same period was 1,99