AMALGAMATING OUR FOREIGN BORN 



garians, Russians, and Greeks still more so; 

 followed by the Japanese and the Chinese, 

 which last are the least assimilable of all. 



Whereas till 1890 immigrants from na- 

 tionalities congruous with our own were in 

 a great majority, since 1895 more hetero- 

 geneous elements from the south and the 

 east of Europe, of lower grade and less edu- 

 cation, have tended to preponderate. In 

 1903, Italy, Russia, and Austria-Hungary 

 sent us 572,000 people; the United King- 

 dom, Germany, and Scandinavia, formerly 

 our chief sources of supply, only 186,000. 



Our southern states have but a scanty for- 

 eign element, the white population of for- 

 eign origin being in North Carolina only i 

 per cent. On the other hand, North 

 Dakota has 78.9 per cent, and in each of 14 

 other states and one territory the inhabitants 

 of foreign origin are in the majority. Ac- 

 cording to the latest statistics at hand, New 

 York has 60. i per cent, New Jersey 54.4, 

 Connecticut 58.2, Rhode Island 65.4, 

 Massachusetts 62.7, Illinois 52, Michigan 

 57.1, Wisconsin 71.5, Minnesota 75.5, South 



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