ID# 1133:
"Analysis of America's Modern Melting Pot," Harry H. Laughlin testimony before the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization
Date:
1922
Pages: (1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17)
Source:
The Harry H. Laughlin Papers, Truman State University, papers, C-2-6,6

&quote;Analysis of America's Modern Melting Pot,&quote; Harry H. Laughlin testimony before the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization

Relative Social Inadequacy of the Several Nativity Groups and Immigrant Races in the United States. 3. Crime. Based upon an analysis of the population of 155 state and federal custodial institutions. [chart]Per cent of quota fulfillment. 0&20&40&60&80&100&120&140&160&180&200&220&240&260&280&300&320&340 [black bar]Switzerland 27.59 [plus or minus sign]8.83 [black bar]Ireland 31.01 [plus or minus sign]2.64 [black bar]Germany 35.16 [plus or minus sign]1.95 [black bar]Scandinavia 35.38 [plus or minus sign]2.77 [black bar]Northwestern Europe 37.97 [plus or minus sign]1.36 [black bar]Great Britain 43.96 [plus or minus sign]2.80 [black bar]Netherlands 58.02 [plus or minus sign]7.47 [black bar]Canada 65.49 [plus or minus sign]2.82 [black bar]Austria-Hungary 68.37 [plus or minus sign]2.39 [black bar]Native White, Both Parents Native-Born 81.84 [plus or minus sign]0.25 [black bar]Native White, Both Parents Foreign-Born 91.14 [plus or minus sign]0.64 [black bar]All Foreign-Born 98.60 [plus or minus sign]0.78 [black bar]United States, All Native-Born Regardless of Race or Color 100.24 [plus or minus sign]0.13 [black bar]Native White, One Parent Native-, One Parent Foreign-Born 115.38 [plus or minus sign]1.01 [black bar]France 123.64 [plus or minus sign]9.08 [black bar]Russia, Finland and Poland 126.05 [plus or minus sign]2.35 [black bar]Southern and Eastern Europe 141.25 [plus or minus sign]1.35 [black bar]Rumania 141.93 [plus or minus sign]1.07 [black bar]Japan 153.13 [plus or minus sign]11.86 [black bar]Portugal 185.71 [plus or minus sign]12.68 [black bar]American Negro 207.00 [plus or minus sign]0.94 [black bar]Italy 218.99 [plus or minus sign]2.68 [black bar]Turkey 240.00 [plus or minus sign] 17.45 [black bar]All Asia 251.00 [plus or minus sign]7.16 [black bar]All Balkan States 275.47 [plus or minus sign]6.24 [black bar]Greece 293.62 [plus or minus sign]9.27 [black bar]West Ind. 318.18 [plus or minus sign]14.46 [black bar]China 337.04 [plus or minus sign]12.96 [black bar]Bulgaria 366.67 [plus or minus sign]6.06 [black bar]Mexico 549.04 [plus or minus sign]21.46[?] [black bar]Spain 660.00 [black bar]Serbia 1400.90 [hatched bar] 0&20&40&60&80&100&120&140&160&180&200&220&240&260&280&300&320&&360 Explanation. 1. Institutional quota is determined by apportioning numbers constituting the whole institutional population, found by special institutional survey, among the several nativity groups and alien races according to their relative numbers found in the whole population of the United States by the Census of 1910. 2. The ratio or quota fulfillment for each nativity group or race is found by dividing the number of institutional inmates of the particular group or race by the quota allotted to the particular group or race. 3. Thus, if the percent or quota fulfillment is greater than 100, the particular group or race has exceeded its quota in supplying social inadequates in state and federal institutions in the United States. If it is less than 100, the particular quota lacks fulfillment by such proportion as the particular per cent is less than 100. 33555-23. (Face p. 740.)

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