THE FOREIGN-BORN OF THE 

 UNITED STATES 



ONE person in every seven in the 

 United States was born outside 

 our borders. We have today 

 13^ million foreign-born, which is ap- 

 proximately equal to the total population 

 of Belgium and Holland combined, or of 

 Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Swit- 

 zerland combined. 



We have one-sixth as many Canadians 

 as there are in Canada and one-half mil- 

 lion more Germans than the city of Ber- 

 lin ; enough Irish to make four Dublins, 

 and enough Italians to make three Romes. 



HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS 



GERMANY 



RUSSIA 



IRELAND 



ITALY 



CANADA 



AUSTRIA 



ENGLAND 



SWEDEN 



HUNGARY 



NORWAY 



SCOTLAND 



MEXICO 



DENMARK. 



FINLAND 



SWITZERLAND 



NETHERLANDS 



FRANCE 



GREECE 



WALES 



JAPAN 



ROUMANIA 



TURKEY IN ASIA 



PORTUGAL 



CHINA 



BELGIUM 



TURKEY IN EUROPE 



SPAIN 



ATLANTIC ISLANDS 



CUBA 



BULGARIA 



AUSTRALIA 



SOUTH AMERICA 



MONTENEGRO 



NEWFOUNDLAND 



INDIA 



SERVIA 



AFRICA 



LUXEMBURG 



PACIFIC ISLANDS 



CENTRAL AMERICA 



This illustration shows the number of per- 

 sons in the United States in 1910 who had 

 been born in Germany, Russia, Austria, Eng- 

 land, etc. It is estimated that there are 943,781 

 Poles in the United States, 418,370 being cred- 

 ited to Russia, 329,418 to Austria, and 190,096 

 to Germany (see the table on the next page). 



Five million two hundred and fifty 

 thousand persons came to the United 

 States to make a permanent home dur- 

 ing the ten years 1900-1910.* History 

 contains no similar movement of popu- 

 lation which in rapidity or volume can 

 equal this. Compared to it, the hordes 

 that invaded Europe from Asia, great 

 and enormous as they were, were insig- 

 nificant. 



The table on page 266 shows the coun- 

 try of birth of the 13,515,000 foreign- 

 born persons in the United States in 1910, 

 the figures being the result 

 ^2^^^^2s of the census of that year 

 ^^^^^^i and just published by the 

 Bureau of the Census. 

 On account of the variety 

 of races represented among the immi- 

 grants from certain foreign countries, 

 the Bureau of the Census has avoided 

 the use of such terms as "Germans," 

 "Russians," "Austrians," etc., to desig- 

 nate the persons born in Germany, Rus- 

 sia, Austria, or other countries. Con- 

 fusion would arise from identifying 

 country of birth with race or nationality. 

 Persons born in Germany, for example, 

 are not all Germans, but include Poles, 

 Hebrews, and others, while conversely- 

 there are many Germans who were born 

 in other countries, particularly Austria, 

 Switzerland, and Russia. 



A great change has taken place in the 

 source of our immigrants. During recent 

 years they have been coming from south- 

 ern and eastern Europe instead of from 

 the northwestern part of that continent. 

 The natives of Germany, although still 

 the largest element in our foreign-born 

 population, showed in 1910 a decrease 

 of 312,295 from the figures of 1900, and 

 the number of persons born in Ireland 

 decreased 263,208. This decrease was 

 due to the fact that the number of new- 

 comers from these countries were out- 

 balanced by the death of many who had 

 come over in the 50's and 6o's. 



* The actual immigration, 1900-1910, was 

 8,500,000, but of these 3,250,000 returned to 

 their own country. 



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