====================================================================== | | IN THE UNITED STATES | NUMBER +---------------+-------------- |REPORTING | 5 to 9 | 10 Years RACE | COMPLETE | Years | and Over | DATA +--------+------+--------+----- | | Number | Per | Number | Per | | | Cent | | Cent ----------------------------+----------+--------+------+--------+----- Recent Races: | | | | | Total | 43,833 | 26,747 | 61.0 | 17,086 | 38.9 Per cent of total | | | | | reporting complete data | 64.9 | .... | 85.3 | .... | 47.3 | | | | | Old Races: | | | | | Total | 23,662 | 4,620 | 19.5 | 19,042 | 80.5 Per cent of total | | | | | reporting complete data | 35.1 | .... | 14.7 | .... | 52.7 ====================================================================== [note 1: Compiled by the Americanization Study from _Report of Commission of Immigration Abstracts_, vol. i, p. 485.] The Commission remarks, indeed, that “on account of the difference in the length of time the various races have been coming to the United States, a comparison of the older with the more recent immigrants is hardly fair.”[103] But it does fail to appreciate the vital significance of the point. And it apparently did not take adequate notice of the further fact, shown in Table IX, that of those of the “older” races who had been here over five years and reported information in regard to citizenship, _80.5 per cent had been in the United States over ten years, while only 38.9 per cent of the “newer” races had been here so long_. That is, only 19.5 per cent of the “older” races, as compared with 61.1 per cent of the “newer,” had been in the country between five and nine years. This means, of course, that the immigrants of the “older” races had had on the average a much longer time than those of the “newer” to acquire “civic interest” and seek naturalization. The “over” added to five years means for the “recent” races between five and nine years in most cases, while for the “older” races it usually means more than ten. It would appear that every year of residence _added to ten_ increases the probability of efforts toward citizenship.