GERMANS IN THE U.S.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16020, 11 September 1915, Page 4 (Supplement)

GERMANS IN THE U.S.

It is estimated by the Census Bureau and the American Bureau of Immigration that there are 2,603,776 persons of German birth in the United States. This estimate is based on the fact that the census report of 1910 showed a total of 2,501,333. Immigration has been light since' that time, but there has been no decline in German population. . Among the. States,' New York leads, with 436,911. She is followed by Illinois with 319,199, Wisconsin with 233,384, Pennsylvania with 195,202, Ohio with 175,095, and. 1,162,572 in other States.

Of the total populations of foreign stock in 1910, Germany was the country ol origin of 8,282,618, or 25.7 per cent. The persons born in Germany constituted 18.7 per cent, of the foreign-born white population in 1910, while of the total native white population of foreign or mixed parentage, persons i having Germany as their country of origin constituted no less than 30.6 per cent. Of the total population of the United States in 1910, Germany was the country of origin of 9 per cent. The figures show that of the foreign white stock having Germany as the country of origin, 30.2 per cent, were themselves born in Germany 47.2 per cent, were born in the United States, but had both parents born in Germany, and 22.6 per cent, were born m the United States, and had one parent born m Germany and the other in this country. •""*