ABSTRACT
A comparison of the amount of rural territory in the agricultural South and the manufacturing North validates Professor F. S. Chapin's interpretation and indicates the cause of the general poverty of the Southern economic order. The movement of the negro to the North is not to the whole section, but to a few main industrial districts. Although in the last decade Northern industrial communities have had great accessions in Negro population through migrations from the South, it should not be forgotten that Southern cities have likewise had increases. Analysis of Southern economy reveals the inability of the agricultural system to support the Southern population. Whether the migration of the negro be studied scientifically or regarded from the standpoint of social prejudice, it must at all times be remembered that the underlying causes are economic and specifically those connected with the growth of large-scale machine production.
