Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1885 — Whites and Blacks in the South. [ARTICLE]

Whites and Blacks in the South.

In his new book Judge Tourgee shows, by a series of tabulated statistics, drawn from the census by decades down to 1880, that the colored race is increasing at a greater ratio than the white race in the South; ihat it already numbers one to every two of the white population, taking all the States together; that in eight of these States it averages 2.4 per cent, less than one to one; that in three of the States it averages 3.7 per cent, more than one to one; while by the increased migration of whites, added to the greater reproductive powers of the blacks, the disparity increases at even more rapid rates.