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in proportion of negroes it is unquestionably above the average for central Florida. In the whole county in F9io there were 3850 native whites, 1-3% foreign whites, and 60.7% negroes. The predominance of negroes is characteristic of many other fertile. regions in the South, but in all such places the whites tend to congregate in the towns and cities, making the number of the two races more nearly equal there. In Ocala there were in 1910 and 1915 almost exactly as many whites as blacks, and in some of the smaller towns the whites are decidedly in the majority.
 The incorporated cities and towns in 1915 were Ocala, with 5,370 inhabitants, Citra, with 400; McIntosh, 206; Reddick, 191 and Belleview, 182. The. 1920 census showed a slight decrease m Ocala, probably due mainly to the migration of negroes from all over the South to northern manufacturing cities during the recent world war.
 In 188o (the latest year for which ve have such data), when the population of Aarion County was still more concentrated in the hammock belt than it is now, about 61i% of the inhabitants of the county were natives of Florida, 20% of South Carolina, and 7% of Georgia, with Alabama, North Carolina and Virginia ranking next. Less than 0.7% were foreign-born, the countries most largely represented being England, Germany, Ireland, Canada and Sweden. Thirty years later the proportions had changed but little, the leading nationalities being English, German, Canadian, Scotch, RussIan (mostly Jews ?) Italian, Swedish, and French.
 In 1910 the percentage of illiteracy in -Marion County was for native whites over 1o years old 1.5, for foreign whites 1.7. and for negroes 19.6. In the city of Ocala at the same time the census enumerators found only one native white person over 10 who coulO not read and write, while 6.3% of the foreigners and 5% of the negroes were illiterate.
 The leading religious denominations in the county in 1916 were, among the whites, Baptist, southern Methodist, northern Iethodist(?)* southern Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Church of Christ, Disciples of Christ, and Roman Catholics. Among the negroes, Baptist, African Methodist, northern -Methodist (?) A. M. E. Zion, and colored Methodist.

 *See explanation of statistical difficulties in the general chapter on religious denominations.