═══════════╤═══════╤═══════╤══════════╤══════════════ │ PER │ PER │ PER CENT │ PER CENT OF │CENT OF│CENT OF│OF FOREIGN│ILLITERATES IN │LYNCHED│LYNCHED│ BORN IN │ POPULATION │ WHO │ WHO │POPULATION│ │ WERE │ WERE │ │ │WHITES │NEGROES│ │ ───────────┼───────┼───────┼────┬─────┼────┬───────── │ │ │1890│1900 │1800│1900[220] ───────────┼───────┼───────┼────┼─────┼────┼───────── Mississippi│ 11.67│ 88.02│ 0.6│ 0.5│40.0│ 32.0 Georgia │ 10.40│ 89.59│ 0.7│ 0.6│39.8│ 30.5 Texas │ 35.18│ 61.41│ 6.8│ 5.9│19.7│ 14.5 Louisiana │ 11.92│ 81.40│ 4.4│ 3.8│45.8│ 38.5 Alabama │ 18.85│ 81.14│ 1.0│ 0.8│41.0│ 34.0 Tennessee │ 24.62│ 75.37│ 1.1│ 0.9│26.6│ 20.7 Arkansas │ 30.0│ 69.5│ 1.3│ 1.1│26.6│ 20.4 Kentucky │ 38.32│ 61.67│ 3.2│ 2.3│21.6│ 16.5 Florida │ 14.17│ 85.82│ 5.9│ 4.5│27.8│ 21.9 South │ 6.83│ 93.16│ 0.5│ 0.4│45.0│ 35.9 Carolina │ │ │ │ │ │ Missouri │ 53.84│ 46.15│ 8.8│ 7.0│ 9.1│ 6.4 Virginia │ 23.07│ 76.92│ 1.1│ 1.0│30.2│ 22.9 North │ 23.43│ 75.0│ 0.2│ 0.2│35.7│ 28.7 Carolina │ │ │ │ │ │ West │ 41.30│ 58.69│ 2.5│ 2.3│11.4│ 2.5 Virginia │ │ │ │ │ │ Maryland │ 10.0│ 90.0│ 9.0│ 7.9│15.7│ 11.1 Indiana │ 78.8│ 21.1│ 6.7│ 5.6│ 6.3│ 4.6 Ohio │ 47.6│ 52.3│12.5│ 11.0│ 5.2│ 4.0 Illinois │ 52.3│ 47.6│22.0│ 20.1│ 5.2│ 4.2 ═══════════╧═══════╧═══════╧════╧═════╧════╧═════════ For the purpose of further investigating the subject of the distribution of lynchings in relation to particular characteristics of the population, the lynchings which have occurred during the last twenty-two years in the Southern Group of States and in the three States of the Eastern Group in which lynchings have been most numerous were classified according to the counties in which they occurred in these several States. On the basis of this classification a careful study was made of the same characteristics of the population by counties as were considered above with reference to the population by States. The percentage of lynchings to the population in the several counties where lynchings have taken place was compared with the percentage of negroes, the percentage of foreign born, and the percentage of illiterates in those several counties.[221] To facilitate comparison, trial charts were drawn on which the percentages were plotted in graphic form, and the results were carefully noted.