Table VIII
Per Cent that Fully Naturalized Male Employees Are of Total Male Employees Who Were Twenty-one Years of Age or Over at Time of Coming, and Who Have Been in the United States Ten Years or Over, Compared with the Per Cent that Male Employees in the United States Ten Years or Over are of Those Here Five Years and Over, by Race.{1}
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| Race | In United States Ten Years or Over | |
| Per Cent Fully Naturalized | Per Cent of Those in United States Five Years or Over | |
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| Old | 74.0 | 80.5 |
| Swedish | 87.6 | 79.0 |
| German | 81.5 | 82.6 |
| Irish | 80.0 | 83.8 |
| Bohemian and Moravian{2} | 79.7 | 56.0 |
| Norwegian | 77.5 | 69.2 |
| Danish | 77.3 | 77.3 |
| Scotch | 76.9 | 80.7 |
| Welsh | 76.4 | 94.6 |
| English | 67.0 | 78.0 |
| French | 64.8 | 57.1 |
| Dutch | 64.7 | 76.8 |
| Canadian, Other | 49.6 | 81.0 |
| Canadian, French | 27.7 | 77.9 |
| New | 37.7 | 38.9 |
| Finnish | 65.7 | 38.5 |
| Hebrew, Other | 54.2 | 56.3 |
| Italian, North | 49.3 | 38.0 |
| Hebrew, Russian | 48.3 | 37.1 |
| Lithuanian | 41.1 | 39.2 |
| Polish | 39.8 | 44.0 |
| Italian, South | 34.0 | 34.8 |
| Russian | 33.6 | 36.8 |
| Magyar | 26.9 | 31.4 |
| Croatian | 26.8 | 23.5 |
| Slovak | 25.3 | 42.8 |
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note 1: Compiled by the Americanization Study from Report of the Immigration Commission, vol. i, p. 488, Table 100.
note 2: The Bohemians and Moravians are classified by the Immigration Commission with the “new” races.
This same factor of disparity in numbers operates, when a comparison of degree of assimilability is attempted, between the old and new races, with respect to residence in the United States from 5 to 9 years. The Immigration Commission gives the per cent naturalized for each race of individuals here five years. It might be expected that for this period of years conclusions could be drawn about the assimilability of the two groups of races. But here again almost six times as many individuals are classed in the new races as in the old and any general inference would be founded on insecure ground because of this disparity in numbers of cases. They, therefore, base their conclusions on the group here 10 years and over.
The Factor of Length of Residence
As we shall see also from the statistics gathered and analyzed for this volume,102 the factor of residence “ten years or over,” with all its implications, is exceedingly important—is, in fact, the major factor in the whole situation. The indictment against the “new” immigration hangs upon it, and falls down when the term “ten years or longer” is analyzed, even in the light of the statistics presented by the Immigration Commission itself in support of the indictment. Indeed, the Commission was not entirely without compunctions on this point, and presented a table exhibiting the probability that, of the male employees from whom it derived its information, those of the “older” races had been in the United States considerably longer than ten years, while those of the “newer” races had been here only slightly longer than ten years. But it did not emphasize the point, and at a superficial glance this might seem a quibble; but it is of importance scarcely to be overestimated.