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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...to take the place of the Germans were the Italians and the Russians, each having achieved primacy in 4 cities, although Italy led in but 1 and Russia in but 2 in 1910. Poland, a country which may have been represented by Austrians, Russians, or Germans in the 1910 list, led in three cities and was second in three others in 1920. This analysis has made it clear that there was in progress during the decade 1910 to 1920 a continued and increasing decline of the German and Irish races in urban leadership and a marked increase in the number of Italians, Russians, and Poles. In practically every large city the Irish born and German born, so long dominant, are yielding to the foreign born of southern Europe and depending in part for their influence in the community upon those modifications of national temperaments and beliefs which appear in the partially Americanized natives of German and Irish parentage. The new immigration restrictions will tend to alter conditions, and it remains for the next census to point out the part which these foreign nationalities are to play in the United States. XI. NEGRO POPULATION. The original centers of Negro population within the United States, as determined by the First Census in 1790, were the states of Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas. These four states returned, at that time, nearly 87 per cent of the total number. They were employed almost exclusively in the cultivation of tobacco and as household servants. With the development and expansion of cotton growing in the South and Southwest, and with the embargo of 1808 against the importation of slaves, it was found advantageous to increase the labor resources of the lower South in connection with the increasing cultivation of cotton. From a study of the...