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Table 36. — Replies to the question: When you purchase meat, is your mind made 
up to buy beef, pork, etc., before you go to the store? 
Group 
Total 
number 
of 
replies 
Percentage replying— 
Yes 
Partly 
No 
American white: 
732 
776 
785 
577 
68.4 
66.2 
73.2 
80.2 
15.2 
19.6 
15.8 
9.2 
16.4 
Middle class. ._ . ._ 
14.2 
11.0 
10.6 
2,870 
71.5 
15.3 
13.2 
Colored: 
Poor class 
203 
197 
96 
' 45 
50 
171 
266 
109 
192 
50 
150 
52.7 
54.8 
71.8 
64.4 
58.0 
70.7 
56.0 
41.3 
73.4 
72.0 
68.6 
• 15.8 
17.8 
16.7 
13.4 
16.0 
17.0 
12.4 
27.5 
9.9 
14.0 
16.7 
31.5 
Middle class ... 
27.4 
Foreign: 
English . 
11.5 
Finnish .. ... 
22.2 
French .. .. .. 
26.0 
German ... ... 
12.3 
Italian .. 
31.6 
31.2 
Polish 
16.7 
14 
14 7 
i Replies from 13 cities; Baltimore, Jacksonville, and New Haven not included. 
Table 37. — Replies by cities to the question: When you purchase meat, is your mind 
made up to buy beef, pork, etc., before you go to the store? 
[Middle class and well-to-do class American white replies combined] 
City 
Total 
number 
of 
replies 
Percentage replying— 
Yes 
Partly 
No 
Baltimore ... . 
94 
89 
100 
97 
92 
101 
99 
100 
100 
103 
100 
100 
93 
94 
100 
99 
74.5 
56.2 
80.0 
57.7 
85.9 
66.4 
76.8 
77.0 
63.0 
73.8 
60.0 
69.0 
65. 5 
54.3 
64.0 
90.9 
11.7 
21.3 
11.0 
34.0 
7.6 
20.8 
11.1 
17.0 
22.0 
4.8 
24.0 
14.0 
24.8 
35.1 
21.0 
4 O 
13 8 
Binghamton. _ . . .. 
22 5 
Birmingham ... . 
9 
Denver .. .. 
8 3 
Fargo... . .. 
6.5 
12.8 
12 1 
Grand Forks ... . ... ... 
Jacksonville . 
6.0 
15.0 
21 4 
New Haven ... .. . 
16.0 
17.0 
9.7 
10.6 
15.0 
Oklahoma City ._ ... .... . ... 
Philadelphia . . ... 
Pittsburgh 
San Francisco . ... 
All cities 
1,561 
69.8 
17 7 1 19 K 
