White and Nonwhite Owners of Rural Land in the Southeast (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book White and Nonwhite Owners of Rural Land in the Southeast (Classic Reprint) written by Robert Fox Boxley Jr and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from White and Nonwhite Owners of Rural Land in the Southeast About 57 percent of the white and 49 percent of the nonwhite landowners operated some or all of the land they owned. These operator groups owned about 60 percent of the total rural land. Nonwhite owners were older, on the average than white owners and had also attained ownership at an older age. Relatively little of the commercial forest land was owned by nonwhites. The average holding of all types of land was 50 acres for nonwhite owners, and 95 acres for white owners. Land owned by nonwhites was generally of higher average value per acre than that of white owners. Inheritance of a full or part interest in land was a more usual method of acquisition among nonwhites than among whites. More than half of the non white landowners acquired at least some of their holdings by inheritance, compared with 40 percent of the white owners. In terms of acreage, however, inheritance was about equally important for both groups and accounted for slightly more than one-third of all land transfers. About 4 percent of the rural land in the Southeast underwent a land use change between 1955 and 1960. With minor exceptions, both racial groups shared the same trends in land use shifts. Land used for cropland declined nearly 3 percent between 1955 and 1960. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.