immigration
1900: Where were the Immigrants?
01/09/10 10:01
This is another Henry Gannett map from the Rumsey website. The legend reads: "Proportion of Whites of Foreign Parentage to Total Population." In other words, where were the immigrants in 1900?
The darker shading indicates more immigrant families. The orange "V" areas have 50% to 75% "Foreign Parentage" populations. The darkest, "VI" areas have greater than 75%.
Since immigrants and their children all have "foreign parents," I think these numbers can be taken to mean first and second generation people. So we're easily reaching back a generation, and looking at a more-or-less total pattern, rather than an immigration and settlement total for a single year or decade. This means, among other things, that there would be "Forty-eighters" among the Germans, famine survivors among the Irish, etc. So these dark areas may be places to look for Europe-inspired radicalism...
