_TABLE_ 7 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── SECTION. POPULATION. INCREASE, 1890 RATE OF INCR. TO 1900 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── United States 8,840,789 1,370,749 18.35 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Georgia 1,034,813 175,998 20.50 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Mississippi 907,630 165,071 22.20 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Alabama 827,307 148,818 21.90 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── So. Carolina 782,321 93,387 13.60 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 31 Northern 759,788 181,876 31.50 States ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── We learn from this table that there are four states in the union, each of which contains a larger number of Negroes than all the 31 free states combined. While such free states show a much more rapid decennial increase than any of the far south states, still the total increment scarcely exceeds that of the single state of Georgia. These figures reveal no mad hegira to a fairer and better land. The increase in the Northern states is due almost wholly to immigration from the South. It is entirely probable that the Negro population, left to itself, would not be a self sustaining quantity in the higher latitudes. During the last decade there was an absolute decline of the Negro population in Vermont, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon and California.