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Show . Our Colored opulallon. I Flriifn-tlitcentlit of nil the roloreil people In the Union are found In the District of Columbia and the teventeen states of Alahauit, Arkanaat, Delaware, I'loriU, Georgia, ICanut, Kentucky, I Loultlaia, Maryland, Mlultalpiil, llli- I sonrl, North Cirollna, Kmtli Carolina, Tezat, Tennertoe, Virginia, West Virginia. Vir-ginia. Tho whole colored population In thertatrsanddUtrict nimeil ajgrrgito C.000.1C4. Tlie white population In the same states and dtatrlct nuinU r 10.809,-S03. 10.809,-S03. lliia It In the proportion of a little luoro thsufour colorcl jiertont to ttn white ones In the locality named, whUli lutludes the most iKipulout colored dlt- ' tricti In the country. Wo havo there-fora there-fora at prexnt ot er 7,000,000 uegro Inhabitants. In-habitants. In three state, Mlulnlpul, honltlana, and Bouth Carolina, the colored apula-lion apula-lion oatnnmbcrt the white. Uut Inonly one of theso states, Mluiulppl, hat the negro topnlatlon gilned on the white since IMI, and that It Accounted for by I the large Immigration from other statet during tho dccido. Negroes have flocked Into Mlulwlppl from the pattern ttatet of the south. Black hat nlao gained slightly on white In Arkansas, Mouth Carolina aud West Virginia. In all the others the whlto pnrplo hat o made a decided de-cided proportional Incrcato ovir the LI K' lit. The fear, therefore, tliat the white man Is tolwdriteu out of a portion por-tion of the south by negruei through sheer force of tujieiior Incrtaw of population popu-lation Is proved by the eleventh ceutus tobugrounJIeA. |