Most lynchings from the late nineteenth through the early 20th century were of African Americans in the South,[1][15] with other victims including white immigrants, and, in the southwest, Latinos. Of the 468 victims in Texas between 1885 and 1942, 339 were black, 77 white, 53 Hispanic, and 1 Indian.[16] They reflected the tensions of labor and social changes, as the whites imposed Jim Crow rules, legal segregation and white supremacy. The lynchings were also an indicator of long economic stress due to falling cotton prices through much of the 19th century, as well as financial depression in the 1890s.[citation needed] In the Mississippi bottomlands, for instance, lynchings rose when crops and accounts were supposed to be settled.[citation needed]
