We justified the 1890 census base on the theory that between those two groups of countries it would afford an almost exactly fair proportion between the countries of northern and western Europe on the one hand and southern and eastern Europe (in the other. Let me show how it does it. Back in 1790. the first census. we had In the United States about 3.200.000 white people. and 90 per cent of them. in round numbers. were English people. If our present immigration were based on this census taken in 1790 90 per cent of it would be English. On the other hand. if we should take the census of 1920. when nearly all the recent immigration had come from countries of southern Europe. practically all the .immigration on that census base would be from Italy. Greece. Rumania. and those countries.
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