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ther north, it will be observed; and in 1910 Cuban, Italian, Span- 

 ish, English, German, Turkish (probably meaning mostly 

 Syrian), Canadian, Greek, Swedish, Irish, Scotch, Russian and 

 Roumanian. This great increase of West Indian and southern 

 European immigration in thirty years indicates quite a deteriora- 

 tion in quality; but if we leave out Hillsborough County, which 

 had over four-fifths of all the foreigners in central Florida, the 

 percentage of foreign whites in 1910 was only 2.24, and the lead- 

 ing nationalities English, German, Canadian. Swedish, Irish, 

 Scotch, Italian, Greek, Danish, Russian and French ; which is not 

 very different from the percentage or the sequence in 1880, when 

 Tampa was a very small place. In the city of Tampa in 19 10 the 

 order was Cuban, Italian, Spanish, German, English, Canadian, 

 Roumanian, Irish, Russian, Greek, Swedish, French, Austrian, 

 Scotch, Mexican, Swiss, Danish. (Some religious statistics for 

 Tampa are given farther on.) 



Recent Federal censuses have not distinguished between native 

 and foreign-born negroes, but in 191 5 a little less than 1% of the 

 negroes in central Florida were of foreign origin, doubtless mostly 

 from the Bahamas and West Indies. 



In 1880 only 59.9% of the inhabitants of central Florida were 

 born in Florida, 14.2% in Georgia, 10.2% in South Carolina, 

 3% in Alabama, 1.8% in North Carolina, 0.9% in Virginia, and 

 smaller numbers in the other states. Marion County had more 

 South Carolinians than Georgians, strange to say.* Unfortu- 

 nately there are no similar data in later censuses, either Federal 

 or State, except for whole states and for cities with more than 

 50,000 inhabitants. The State census of 191 5 made inquiry as 

 to the birthplace of each individual and his or her parents, but did 

 not publish the results, except as to the number of persons born in 

 and out of the United States. If the data could be tabulated sep- 

 arately for whites and negroes, for adults and children, and for 

 farmers and city people, some very interesting results would be 

 obtained. 



*See Seventh Annual Report, p. 124. At present Ohioans seem to be 

 very largely represented, especially west of the lake region, and Kentuckians 

 in the lake region. 



