Proof that these newcomers are not all lazy, shiftless, and immoral is to be found in the statements of savings, and of remittances to relatives in the South. Fifteen percent of the families here had savings. Eighty percent[6] of the married ones with families elsewhere were sending money home, and nearly one hundred of the two hundred and nineteen single people interviewed, were contributing sums to parents, sisters or other relatives. Most of these contributions, (sixty-five percent) amounted to about five dollars per week. Fifty-two persons were contributing from five to ten dollars per week, and seven were sending over ten dollars per week. From table number XII, it seems that only a few of the Southern states have borne the brunt of the exodus. Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia taken together, have contributed sixty percent of the migrants, Alabama and Georgia giving forty-seven percent of the total number. Alabama was the native state of more than forty-nine percent of the married men who have families here. This altogether disproportionate influx from Alabama, as compared with other states, is probably due to the fact that our state and the former have similar industries. Birmingham, Alabama, as is well known, is called the “Pittsburgh of the South”; and it is therefore natural that the labor agents from this district should make a special effort to secure the labor which is more or less familiar with the iron and steel business. Again, it may be presumed that a great many who were working in the steel industries or in the mines of Alabama have come to Pittsburgh in order to secure familiar employment. A considerable number, however, may have come because of the crop failure and the ravages of the boll-weevil which have made the cultivation of cotton unprofitable during recent years. _TABLE NUMBER XII_ _Home States of 567 Migrants_ ALABAMA ███████████████████████████████████ 177 GEORGIA █████████████ 66 NO. CAROLINA ████████ 38 VIRGINIA ███████ 33 FLORIDA █████ 26 MISSOURI ████ 20 TENNESSEE ████ 20 SO. CAROLINA ███ 15 W. VIRGINIA ███ 15 KENTUCKY ███ 15 PENNSYLVANIA ███ 14 OHIO ██ 13 MISSISSIPPI ██ 10 LOUISIANA ██ 10 ILLINOIS ██ 10 MARYLAND ██ 9 DIST. OF COL. ██ 8 TEXAS █ 4 INDIANA █ 2