His racial origin would be 50 per cent Irish and 50 per cent German. and if we were trying to do the impossible thing of taking a census of the present population of America to determine its racial origin. and if some individual said that his parents were immigrants. one of them from Ireland and the other from Germany. we would count him as half a unit in each column. But. obviously. that is impossible. However. as I explained more than an hour ago. when many Senators who are now here were not in the Cnamher. we can not reach the racial origins of our present population by working backward from individuals who are now here. because there are 95 per cent of our people who can not tell you the name even of their greatgreatgrandfather or the country from which he came. Perhaps about 5 per cent of our population could respond with fair exactness to such a census. but it is an obvious impossibility.
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