GEOGRAPHY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA 



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in part to the superior school facihties in cities, which by contin- 

 ually uplifting the native children tend to create a vacuum at the 

 bottom of the social scale, which calls for the importation of ig- 

 norant foreigners to do the necessary menial tasks, or the monot- 

 onous routine work of semi-skilled laborers in factories. This 

 state of affairs is accentuated by compulsory education, and is 

 therefore more pronounced in the northern states that have had 

 such a system much longer than Florida has.* 



*The following table will indicate something of the condition of the foreign 

 population in a few large northern cities in 1910. All except Boston and New 

 York are noted chiefly for their textile industries. 



Most of the abbreviations for nationalities will be readily understood. Fr. 

 Can. means French Canadians, and Can. all other Canadians. 



