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RESOURCES OF SOUTHERN ALABAMA. 



It is not easy or altogether safe to make any correlations 

 between religion and soil, but it appears that in southern 

 Alabama, if not elsewhere, the Baptists and Methodists are 

 strongest in the rural districts, Presbyterians in cities, Epis- 

 copalians where white illiteracy is low (mostly in cities), 

 and Catholics where foreigners are most numerous. 



TABLE 29 A. 



Statistics of religious denominations in southern Alabama, 1916. 

 (Percentages of total membership of each race.) 



Since the manuscript of this report was turned over to 

 the printers the government census returns of religious de- 

 nominations for 1916 have become available, and the results 

 as far as they apply to southern Alabama (with the omis- 

 sion of a few of the smaller denominations) are shown in 

 Table 29 A. This religious census goes into a little more 

 detail than the preceding one, and separates the white and 

 colored Baptists, which had to be estimated before. There 

 is still some uncertainty about the number to be allotted to 



