The answer to that is that it most certainly does. for the simple reason that. as the gentleman undoubtedly knows. when the national origins system was adopted. as I mentioned before. the quota for each foreign country was determined by finding the ratio that the number of inhabitants in the United States whose ancestry was traceable to that foreign country bore to the total number of inhabitants. as that word was defined. For example. let us take Italy: The quota for Italy was determined by taking the number of persons of Italian ancestry in this country under the 1923 census and computing their ratio to the total inhabitant population at that time. Now. the result of that was that a very. very small quota was established for Italy.
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