_State_ _Urban 1960_ _Rural 1960_ _Total 1960_ Alabama 1,791,721 1,475,019 3,266,740 Arkansas 765,303 1,020,969 1,786,212 Florida 3,661,383 1,290,177 4,951,560 Georgia 2,180,236 1,762,880 3,943,116 Kentucky 1,353,215 1,684,941 3,038,156 Louisiana 2,060,606 1,196,416 3,257,022 Mississippi 820,805 1,357,336 2,178,141 North Carolina 1,801,921 2,754,234 4,556,155 Oklahoma 1,464,786 863,498 2,328,284 South Carolina 981,386 1,401,208 2,382,594 Tennessee 1,864,828 1,702,261 3,567,089 Texas 7,187,470 2,392,207 9,579,677 Virginia 2,204,913 1,762,036 3,966,949 _Per cent Rural_ _State_ _1900_ _1920_ _1940_ _1960_ Alabama 89.0 78.3 65.2 45.2 Arkansas 91.5 83.4 77.2 57.1 Florida 79.7 63.5 44.9 26.0 Georgia 84.4 74.9 65.6 44.7 Kentucky 78.2 73.8 70.2 55.4 Louisiana 74.5 65.1 58.5 36.7 Mississippi 92.3 86.6 80.2 62.3 North Carolina 91.1 80.8 72.7 60.4 Oklahoma 92.6 73.5 62.4 37.0 South Carolina 87.2 82.5 75.5 58.8 Tennessee 86.5 73.9 64.8 47.7 Texas 82.9 67.6 54.6 24.9 Virginia 81.7 70.8 64.7 44.4 These figures, as I hope to demonstrate after a while, should be treated with some reserve, but on their own they tell a revolutionary tale. Of the twelve States that were firmly rural in 1940, only North and South Carolina, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Mississippi were found predominantly rural in 1960. This migration from the countryside has seen the number of farms in the South drop from 3,100,000 in 1910 to 1,650,000 in 1959; the number of farms either owned or operated by Negroes has dropped from 890,000 to 272,000 in the same period. In many aspects, to be sure, the census of 1960 found the South hardly changed at all. The region still is composed overwhelmingly of native-born Americans; except for Florida and Texas, none of the thirteen States has as much as four-tenths of 1 per cent foreign-born population. Southerners still are moving out of the South more rapidly than non-Southerners are moving in, but the Southern tendency to stay put remains much in evidence: 90 per cent of the citizens of Mississippi were born there, and the percentage is almost as high in Alabama and the Carolinas.