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American as one born here in 1620. 

 And further this right is just as logi- 

 cally passed on hereditarily now as it 

 was then." "Practically and in fact 

 that is the way in which Americans of 

 all varieties including that odd and 

 rather dangerous creature now so much 

 to the fore, the '100 per cent American,' 

 have come into being!" 



Leaving this debatable ground a 



study of Table V which has been repro- 

 duced here will show that there is a 

 truly astounding amount of racial 

 hybridization. Giving all sources of 

 error their due weight and being rea- 

 sonably severe with the United States 

 X United States group it seems safe to 

 conclude that approximately 10 per 

 cent of the children born in 1919 were 

 first generation hybrids! 



Total 1,253,848 100.004 



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