Net Migration Eastward and Westward and Northward and Southward -------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Population, 1910 +---------+------------------------------+-------+----- Total White Negro All +---------+---------+----------+ Other Total Of Native Of Foreign Parentage or Mixed Section Parentage -------------------+---------+---------+---------+----------+-------+----- Born east and living west of the Mississippi River 5,276,879 4,941,529 3,846,940 1,094,589 331,031 4,319 Born west and living east of the Mississippi River 684,773 616,939 417,541 199,398 63,671 4,163 ---------+---------+---------+----------+-------+------ Net migration westward across the Mississippi River 4,592,106 4,324,590 3,429,399 895,191 267,360 156 Born North and living South 1,449,229 1,407,262 1,156,122 251,140 39,077 2,890 Born South and living North 1,527,107 1,110,245 944,572 165,673 415,533 1,329 ---------+---------+---------+----------+-------+------ Net migration southward 297,017 211,550 85,467 1,561 Net migration northward 77,878 376,456 -------------------+---------+---------+---------+----------+-------+------ [Footnote 1: _Congressional Record_, 46th Cong., 2d sess., vol. X, p. 104.] [Footnote 2: _Atlantic Monthly_, LXIV, p. 222; _Nation_, XXVIII, pp. 242, 386.] [Footnote 3: Williams, _History of the Negro Race_, II, p. 375.] [Footnote 4: _Atlantic Monthly_, LXIV, p. 222.] [Footnote 5: Williams, _History of the Negro Race_, II, p. 375.] [Footnote 6: W.L. Fleming, "Pap Singleton, the Moses of the Colored Exodus," _American Journal of Sociology_, chapter XV, pp. 61-82.] [Footnote 7: _Congressional Record_, Senate Reports, 693, part II, 46th Cong., 2d sess.] [Footnote 8: _American Journal of Social Science_, XI, pp. 22-35.] [Footnote 9: Ibid., p. 23.] [Footnote 10: _The Censuses of the United States_.] [Footnote 11: Ibid.] [Footnote 12: Vol. I, census of 1910, Population, General Report and Analysis, p. 693.] [Footnote 13: Ibid., p. 694.] [Footnote 14: Ibid., p. 698.] [Footnote 15: Vol. 1, 1910 census, Population, General Report and Analysis, p. 699.] [Footnote 16: Scroggs, "Interstate Migration of Negro Population," _Journal of Political Economy_, December, 1917, p. 1040.] CHAPTER II CAUSES OF THE MIGRATION