It is now raising food-stuffs to make that section self-supporting without reducing the usual output of cotton.

With the increasing production in the South, therefore, more labor is needed just at the very time it is being drawn to centers in the North.

The North being an industrial and commercial section has usually attracted the immigrants, who will never fit into the economic situation in the South because they will not accept the treatment given Negroes.

The South, therefore, is now losing the only labor which it can ever use under present conditions.
Where these Negroes are going is still more interesting.

The exodus to the west was mainly directed to Kansas and neighboring States, the migration to the Southwest centered in Oklahoma and Texas, pioneering Negro laborers drifted into the industrial district of the Appalachian highland during the eighties and nineties and the infiltration of the discontented talented tenth affected largely the cities of the North.