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Table 42. — Replies to the question: When you purchase meat, are you influenced by 
meat displays? 
Group 
Total 
number 
of replies 
Percentage replying— 
No 
Yes 
Partly 
American white: 
741 
773 
778 
577 
42.4 
47.3 
51.9 
57.7 
43.2 
31.3 
30.5 
28.3 
14.4 
21.4 
Well-to-do class ... 
17.6 
Wealthy class 1 
14.0 
Total American white 
2,869 
49.4 
33.5 
17. 1 
Colored: 
" Poor class . .. 
202 
197 
95 
45 
50 
171 
253 
107 
185 
50 
150 
32.2 
36.0 
58.9 
26.7 
48.0 
59.6 
36.4 
72.9 
60.0 
48.0 
41.3 
50.0 
43.7 
16.9 
40.0 
40.0 
24.0 
49.8 
13.1 
31.9 
36.0 
33.3 
17.8 
Middle class ... . ... .. .. 
20.3 
Foreign: 
English.. ... . .. 
24.2 
Finnish ........ . _. 
33.3 
12.0 
16.4 
Italian ... .. _. . 
13.8 
Jewish . 
14.0 
Polish .. 
8. 1 
16.0 
25.4 
i Replies from 13 cities; Baltimore, Jacksonville, and New Haven not included. 
Table 43. — Replies by cities to the question: When you purchase meat, are you 
influenced by meat display? 
[Middle class and well-to-do class American white replies combined] 
City 
Total 
number 
replies of 
Percentage rep lying- 
No 
Yes 
Partly 
Baltimore 
Binghampton.. 
Birmingham. .. 
Denver 
Fargo 
Grand Forks. __ 
Jacksonville 
Lincoln 
Minneapolis... 
New H«ven 
New Orleans... 
Oklahoma City 
Philadelphia... 
Pittsburgh 
San Francisco.. 
Washington 
All cities. 
100 
96 
92 
100 
99 
100 
99 
103 
100 
too 
53.8 
42.1 
30.0 
45.8 
17.4 
47.0 
78.8 
40.0 
50.6 
65.0 
44.0 
37.0 
65.6 
44.7 
55.1 
75.5 
49.6 
39.6 
39.7 
61.0 
25.0 
56.5 
25.0 
13.1 
41.0 
26.2 
21.4 
32.0 
46.0 
2.1 
23.4 
27.6 
15.3 
30. 
6.6 
18.2 
9.0 
29.2 
26.1 
28.0 
8.1 
19.0 
23.2 
13.6 
24.0 
17.0 
32.3 
31.9 
17.3 
9.2 
19.5 
