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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA 57
tion will probably see it scientifically drained and cultivated. Its
agricultural potentialities are inconceivably enormous.
Of Georgia©s 2,609,121 population, as given by the 1910 census,
2,070,471 was rural and only 538,650 urban. Forty-six per cent,
were negroes. At the same rate of increase as during the pre
vious ten years, 17.7 per cent. the population would now be
2,840,028. The increase of whites in the decade referred to was
21.2 and of negroes 13.7. There are 52 counties in the State,
which contain cities and towns as follows: 200,000 population, I;
over 50,000, i; over 25,000, 2; over 10,000, 5; over 5,000, 14; over
2,500, 22; under 2,500, 516. Of the 1,431,802 white inhabitants
in 1910 there were only 15,072 who had been born in foreign
countries, and 25,672 who had one or both parents born abroad.
Of the native whites 229,295 were born in other states than
Georgia.
Georgians A11 Over Country
Since "the war," by which term the civil conflict of the sixties
is generally referred to, there have been comparatively few
Georgia incomers, but many outgoers. Through the seventies
and eighties and even later, hardly a family in the State escaped
more or less depletion by migration to the West, following the
NINETY-FOOT DAM OF GA. BY. & POWER CO.. TALULAH VAUJS, BABUN COUNTY.