We can not assimilate them. we can not absorb them. they are not our hind.. Now. the next table is. it seems to me. a more vicious indictment than the last one. That table discloses 1U.088 people in the. alushouses in New England. 5.706 were foreign born. more than 50 per cent. In the Middle Atlantic States 23.772 were. found in the poorhouses. 11.712 of them were foreign born. In the East North Central States 21.358 were in the poorhouses. and of these 8.388 were foreign born. There were 6.366 in the West North Central States. of whom. 2.371" were foreign born. This same document discloses that in New England there were 289.700 illiterates. and of that: number 257.207 were foreign born. In the Middle Atlantic States there were 865"382 illiterates. aind the foreign b.orn were 760.01:0. Those wereilliterate persons 10 years ofage and over.
Identified stereotypes
Foreign-born individuals are disproportionately represented in almshouses and among the illiterate population.