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- Title
A Statistical Study of the Croatans.
- Authors
Harper, Roland M.
- Abstract
The Croatans are a group of several thousand people of uncertain and probably mixed ancestry, living in North and South Carolina, principally in Robeson County, in the former state. This is probably the largest population group in the U.S. The Croatans constituted 18.7 per cent of the population of Robeson County, 2.76 per cent from Scotland, 2.54 per cent from Hoke, and about 0.45 per cent of the total population of North Carolina. In Robeson County, which includes over 80 per cent of all the Croatans considered here, their distribution by townships has been studied, by means of local details given for the first time by the Census of 1930. Of the 26 townships in the county, three had no Croatans at all, in one they constituted 88 per cent of the population, and in two others over 50 per cent. One of these is Pembroke, the principal railroad center of the county, and an observant traveler passing through there can usually see several of them. The population statistics present in the article are based on seven counties in North Carolina and one in South Carolina which contained 12 or more Indians. Croatans are seen to be inferior to the Whites in everything that indicates prosperity, but usually superior to the Negroes.
- Subjects
ROBESON County (N.C.); NORTH Carolina; SOUTH Carolina; UNITED States; POPULATION &; society; POPULATION dynamics; AFRICAN Americans
- Publication
Rural Sociology, 1937, Vol 2, Issue 4, p444
- ISSN
0036-0112
- Publication type
Article