Between 1900 and 1910 the increase in the New England States was 12.2 per cent and in the East North Central 16.7 per cent.

The mountain divisions show a large percentage of increase, but as there were in both of them together less than 51,000 negroes, comprising less than 1 per cent of the population, it is evident that the negro is not a serious factor in the West.

The negroes form an insignificant component (less than 5 per cent) of the population of any Northern State, though in some Northern cities the number of negroes is considerable.

See _Abstract of the Thirteenth Census of the United States,_ p.

78.] Between 1900 and 1910, the native white population increased 20.9 per cent while the negro population increased only 11.2 per cent.