Millions of people have come to the United States from countries behind the Iron Curtain. while hardly anyone has left America and started life anew in any part of the Soviet Empire. The 1960 census of population revealed that 19 percent of our inhabitants were of foreign stock. Of the 179.323.175 people residing in the 50 States plus the District of Columbia. 34.050.354 were either foreign born or had at least one parent of foreign birth. The figures for 1970. which are now being compiled. will probably not show great percentage changes. These figures do not include millions of other people who are the descendants of immigrants who came to this country to escape earlier tyrannies and such economic disasters as the potato famine in Ireland. Whether Americans of foreign descent arrived during the last half century or earlier. or whether they came from one side of the Iron Curtain or the other. they made the long journey to America in order to breathe the precious air of freedom. to enjoy our seemingly boundless Godgiven material resources. and to avail themselves of the opportunities offered under the free enterprise system. Let us take a closer look at the census figures.
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