Alabama 8 Arkansas 6 California 0 Colorado 3 Connecticut 0 Delaware 0 Florida 9 Georgia 16 Idaho 0 Illinois 0 Indiana 3 Iowa 0 Kansas 2 Kentucky 1 Louisiana 20 Maine 0 Maryland 1 Massachusetts 0 Michigan 0 Minnesota 0 Mississippi 20 Missouri 2 Montana 0 Nebraska 0 New Jersey 0 New Hampshire 0 New York 0 Nevada 0 North Carolina 3 North Dakota 0 Ohio 0 Oregon 0 Pennsylvania 0 Rhode Island 0 South Carolina 2 South Dakota 0 Tennessee 7 Texas 4 Vermont 0 Virginia 6 West Virginia 2 Wisconsin 0 Washington 0 Wyoming 0 Arizona 0 District of Columbia 0 New Mexico 0 Utah 0 Indian Territory 0 Oklahoma 0 Alaska 0 From these tables certain facts may be deduced. The first is that, in the year of which an analysis is given (1900), over nine-tenths of the lynchings occurred in the South, where only about one-third of the population of the country were, but where nine-tenths of the Negroes were; secondly, that, of these lynchings, about nine-tenths were of Negroes and one-third were in the three States where the Negroes are most numerous; thirdly, that, while the lynchings appear to be diminishing at the South, the ratio, at least, is increasing at the North. Of the lynchings in 1903, 12 occurred in the North and 92 in the South. Of the total number, 86 were Negroes, 17 were whites, and 1 a Chinaman. Among the alleged causes were murder, 47; criminal assault, 11; attempted criminal assault, 10; murderous assault, 7; “race prejudice,” 5. Of those in 1904 there were 82 Negroes and 4 whites; 81 occurred in the South and 5 in the North. It further appears that, though after the war lynching in the South may have begun as a punishment for assault on white women, it has extended until of late less than one-fourth of the instances are for this crime, while over three-fourths of them are for murder, attempts at murder, or some less heinous offence. This may be accounted for, in part, by the fact that often the murders in the South partake somewhat of the nature of race-conflicts.