That's true. It's also worth pointing out from the same graph that today's "high immigrant population" is the same as what it was from the entire 1870-1910 peri

That's true. It's also worth pointing out from the same graph that today's "high immigrant population" is the same as what it was from the entire 1870-1910 period. A period that saw America rise from second-tier status to a world power. Most natives can trace some of their ancestry to the immigrants who arrived during this period.