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RESOURCES OF SOUTHERN ALABAMA. 



TABLE 28. 

 Numerical facts about 17 smaller cities of southern Alabama. 



All these have electric lights, waterworks, banks, etc. 



RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS. 



In 1906, the latest year for which we have any such sta- 

 tistics, the leading religious denomination among both races 

 was Baptist, and the next Methodist, but the others varied 

 in relative importance in different regions, and especially in 

 Mobile, which being an old seaport with a considerable for- 

 eign population, differs considerably in social conditions 

 from the agricultural districts. The relative importance of 

 the different denominations, for the two races separately, 

 has already been indicated for separate regions. Table 29 

 gives the percentage of the total church membership be- 

 longing to each denomination in each region, with certain 

 limitations. 



First, the white (Southern) and colored (National) 

 Baptists are not separated in the returns by counties, but 

 have been estimated in the light of the fact that in the whole 



