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Percentage of total living in — 1900 1910 



1. New England, Middle Atlantic and South 



Atlantic Divisions 64.2 64.4 



2. East North Central, East South Central, West 



North Central and West South Central 



Divisions 29 . 9 28.7 



3. Mountain and Pacific Divisions 5.9 6.9 



100. o 100. o 



Thus, roughly two-thirds of these immigrants remain in the East; 

 but although the proportion of those in the East shows a slight increase 

 in the last ten years, it can hardly be called a definite tendency, for those 

 in the extreme West show a larger growth in importance. Without more 

 definite knowledge as to the precise position of individuals it is impossible 

 to dogmatise ; but from these figures it appears probable that the average 

 distance from the Atlantic seaboard of immigrants in Group iii. is slightly 

 larger than it was. Thus 



{64.2+(2X29.9) + (3X5.9)}<{644+(2X28.7) + (3X6.9)}. 

 We are faced with the fact that a large, but stationary percentage of the 

 total remains in the East, and we are asked to believe that this is because 

 they are too poor to go to the Central States or the Coast. According to 

 this argument we do not and cannot know what are the preferences of 

 the people ; all that we can see is the economic disadvantage under which 

 they labour. This may roughly be tested by an enquiry into the financial 

 circumstances of various immigrants on landing. 



The ten peoples for whom returns are given on the following page 

 have been arranged (reading from left to right) according to their pro- 

 bable average wideness of distribution, as shown by the method of calcu- 

 lation already used. The Scandinavians are probably the most widely 

 distributed of all, the Irish and Italians the most concentrated. It will 

 be seen that the connection between average of money shown and wide- 

 ness of distribution, if it exists at all, is very hard to trace. The Dutch, 

 with more money per head than the Scandinavians, are probably the 

 less widely distributed; with less money per head than the Germans, 

 they are probably the more widely distributed. There is no possible 

 comparison between the distribution of Irish and Scandinavians; though 

 the Irish have very little less money than they, and more money than 

 the well distributed Croatians. The Greeks, with nearly twice as much 

 money as the Scandinavians, are far less widely distributed; and yet 

 there is a marked difference between the distribution of Greeks and 

 Germans, although both show the same amount on entering the country. 

 The Italians appear to have very little money, and yet the difference 



