Total Whites in State 729,612 Total Negroes in State 650,804 --------- 1,380,416 Negroes form 47.1% of total= =LOUISIANA NEGROES PER SQUARE MILE, 1900 Square Miles in State 45,420 Average Negroes per Mile 14.3 Average Whites per Mile 16.1= =EASTERN TEXAS Whites in District 1,747,052 Negroes in District 608,301 Negro Percentage in State 20.4 In District Covered 25= =EASTERN TEXAS NEGROES PER SQUARE MILE, 1900 Square Miles included 60,453 Average Negro .10 Average White 28.8 Includes all Counties with one Negro per Square Mile= Footnotes: [1] See article by A. H. Stone. Atlantic Monthly, May, 1903. [2] "The Negro in Maryland." [3] The Negro in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta. [4] Bulletin, Department of Labor, No. 35. [5] The Future of the American Negro. [6] Olmsted, F. L.--The Cotton Kingdom. [7] Olmsted, F. T. The Cotton Kingdom. [8] Negroes of Litwalton, Va.--Bulletin Department of Labor, No. 37. [9] Rents a mule. [10] Bulletin, Department of Labor, No. 35. Transcriber's Notes: Passages in italics are indicated by _underscore_. Additional spacing after some of the quotes is intentional to indicate both the end of a quotation and the beginning of a new paragraph as presented in the original text. Inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation, and hyphenation have been retained from the original. Misprints corrected: "entrepeneurs" corrected to "entrepreneurs" (page 6) "optomistic" corrected to "optimistic" (page 8) "from" corrected to "form" (page 9) "Atantic" corrected to "Atlantic" (page 9) "stdy" corrected to "study" (page 10) "Talledega" corrected to "Talladega" (page 16) "inhabitated" corrected to "inhabited" (page 17) "sevaral" corrected to "several" (page 31) "carefuly" corrected to "carefully" (page 37) "Tusgekee" corrected to "Tuskegee" (page 73) "Talledega" corrected to "Talladega" (page 73) "charactertistics" corrected to "characteristics" (page 77) Two footnotes are marked [7]; both refer to the same footnote. The key to the table on page 51 was extracted from the column headings of the original table that were printed vertically. Wide tables have been split in half with one column repeated.