There were some countriesand Spain is a good example of themwhose boundaries were not changed. but whose colonies had to be taken into consideration in fixing these quotas. because of the number of people we had had migrating here from Spanish colonies. for example. and nothing of that sort is shown in the 1890 census. and it all had to be guessed at. That goes to explain why even the Spanish figures estimated by the census in 1924 were wide of the mark. When we get to central Europe. the countries affected by the war. we discover. to our amazement. that 66 per cent of all of the immigration now coming into the United States comes from countries whose boundaries were changed by the war in such fashion as to make it an element of guess as to what they should get under the 1890 quotas. Sixtysix per cent of the 1890 list is guesswork. Nobody has yet said that that was true of national origins.
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