Why can't i transfer contacts from my iPhone to my mac

I just purchased a Mac pro. my pictures all transfered over, but, I can't get my contacts to transfer. please help
Jane

When I started with my iPhone, I was adding contacts to the "On my iPhone" account because that was the default, and they didn't sync through the cloud. I changed the default account to iCloud and the new ones worked, but I don't think the old "on my iPhone" ones worked. Might have to export them and then import them. It's all fuzzy now and this was in IOS5.

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