The difference between this figure and the figure last mentioned would obviously be the descendants of the people who arrived in this country after 1820. This difference is 11.902.357. In apportioning this number of persons. nearly 12.000.000. to different countries we here make an assumption which seems to be justified by the sources of our immigration between 1820 and 1890. In 1880 the immigration from southern and eastern Europe rose for the first time to more than 11 per cent of the total. and it was not until the middle of the decade after 1890 that it first rose to as much as onehalf of the total. The earlier arrivals. though fewer in numbers. have of course contributed relatively greater proportions through their descendants to the number of native born of native parents than the elements which entered since 1880. And so in making an estimate of the racial origin of these 12.000.000 people (about oneeighth of our total white population of today) it would seem more than fair to assume that their anterior sources were about the same as the sourcesoof our foreignborn population of 1890.
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