This
increase of negro population in certain Northern states is, of course,
due to the immigration of the negro into those states, and may be
regarded on the whole as a fortunate movement, serving to distribute the
negro population more evenly over the whole country, were it not that
the negro death rate in these Northern states is so very high that the
negroes who go to these states do not as a rule maintain their numbers.
_The Urban Negro Population._--Seventeen per cent of the total
negro population in 1900 lived in cities of over 8000 population while
the remainder lived in small towns and country districts. The following
great cities had a high percentage of negroes:
Per cent.
Memphis ............................... 48.8
Washington ............................ 31.1
New Orleans ........................... 27.1
Louisville ............................ 19.1
St. Louis ............................. 6.2
Philadelphia ........................
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