260 THE TREND OF THE RACE 
native born are greatly in excess. Denmark occupies an anoma- 
lous position in that most of her people were foreign born. We 
should expect her to come after the Irish and ahead of the Eng- 
lish, according to Jenks and to occupy a position ahead of the 
Germans according to the proportion of foreign born. The 
relatively large number of out-marriages considering the probably 
recent arrival of her immigrants is perhaps due to the compara- 
tively small number of Danes in the city. Where a people is 
represented by a comparatively few individuals the number of 
out-marriages would naturally be high. The relatively high 
fecundity of the Irish, despite their long sojourn in this country 
(as indicated by proportions of their native born), is probably 
due to their high percentage of Roman Catholics as is also 
the case with the French-Canadians. 
Recency of arrival is probably a potent factor in determining 
the size of the family and the amount of intermarriage in the 
various stocks represented in the city of Minneapolis. This 
conclusion is all the more probable since the birth rate of the 
foreign stocks in Minneapolis does not show a close correspond- 
ence with the birth rate of these stocks in their native countries. 
Those stocks which have the largest percentage of American born 
of one or more generations show, as a rule, both the highest 
number of out-marriages and the lowest birth rate. The out- 
marriages, with a few exceptions due probably to the small 
numbers represented, are more frequent in all groups among the 
first generation of American born than in the foreign born, and 
greater in the third generation than in the second or first. The 
most mixed groups, are as a rule, the groups having the largest 
proportions of older immigrant stock; they are the most Ameri- 
canized, and their birth rate is also low, not because they are of 
mixed blood, but because they have become most thoroughly 
imbued with our traditions. As so frequently happens when one 
is dealing with demographical statistics, the conclusion which 
seems at first to follow is not borne out by a more critical ex- 
amination of the evidence. We have as yet insufficient 
grounds for concluding that race mixture or the mingling of 
