. Book of Texas . hope is to be foundin Texas, where the percentage of negroes in the total popu-lation has decreased steadily from 25 per cent, in 1850 to 17per cent, in 1915, although, through interstate migration,Texas gains about 2,000 negroes a year. The percentage ofnegroes in Texas is about the same as that of Tennessee,Maryland, and Delaware. Only to a small extent do thenegroes prefer the town to the country, the rural and urbanpercentages being nearly the same. In the matter of movingto town the difference between the races is the same as be-tween tweedledum and tweedledee. Practical
. Book of Texas . hope is to be foundin Texas, where the percentage of negroes in the total popu-lation has decreased steadily from 25 per cent, in 1850 to 17per cent, in 1915, although, through interstate migration,Texas gains about 2,000 negroes a year. The percentage ofnegroes in Texas is about the same as that of Tennessee,Maryland, and Delaware. Only to a small extent do thenegroes prefer the town to the country, the rural and urbanpercentages being nearly the same. In the matter of movingto town the difference between the races is the same as be-tween tweedledum and tweedledee. Practically all of thenegroes are in the eastern third of the state, and the highestpercentages of negroes in the population are strikingly con- NATIONALITY AND CHARACTERISTICS 57 fined to the river valleys. The Texas negro is very similar tohis congener in the rest of the South: he exhibits a markedtendency to retreat before the invading Mexican. Samboavoids Jose, although negroes pick up Spanish with con-siderable PERCENTAGE OF NEGROESBY COUNTIES Numbers represent percentage ofnegro population. Negroes are so largely confined to the eastern third of thestate that there are many counties in the western part withvery few or none at all. Many young Texans, therefore,grow up knowing little or nothing about darkies, and areas ignorant as a Vermonter of the cullud part of Southernlife. At present there is not much communication between 5S THE BOOK OF TEXAS Texas and the other Gulf States, the main channels of traderunning to St. Louis, Kansas City, and to the northeastrather than to New Orleans; nevertheless, so many Texanshave come out of the South, including Missouri and Kentuckyand Tennessee, that Texas is predominantly Southern inthought and feeling. She always rolls up a tremendousDemocratic majority, the Democratic primaries are thereal elections, and all the political issues that lead to activecontests arise between different portions of the overwhelm-ingly preponderant Democr
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