Comparatively few have come to the South from other sections except in Florida, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, and fewer foreign born have settled in the South.

As a result, the percentage of increase of population is less for the South, if Oklahoma be omitted, than for the United States as a whole.

Many of the laborers are of rural origin or are only a generation removed from the farm.

They preserve the individualistic attitude of the rural mind and have learned little of collective action.

Labor unions have made small progress except in a few skilled trades and class consciousness has not developed in the South.
The important industries have thus far been few and they have kept rather close to the original raw material.