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http://www.census.gov/how/infographics/foreign_born.html http://www.census.gov/how/infographics/foreign_born.html shows that the foreign-born population of the
by jleader 12y ago
http://www.census.gov/how/infographics/foreign_born.html http://www.census.gov/how/infographics/foreign_born.html shows that the foreign-born population of the US oscillated around 13-14% through the 2nd half of the 19th century, dipped below 5% in 1970, and had not quite made it back up to 13% by the 2010 census. I actually hadn't realized how close we were to matching the earlier peak, until I looked it up.
- apetresc 12y agoForeign-born is one thing, but I have an intuitive sense that immigrants to the US came from European countries during the world-war era, and now they're mainly coming from India, China, and South America, whose native languages are much more different from English than Spanish, British English, French, Italian, or German.