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THE PERCENTAGE OF GERMAN BLOOD IN THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

In order to ascertain what influence German immigration has exercised upon the character of the American people it is at least useful to find out what percentage of the inhabitants of the United States have German blood in their veins. The figures given here have been collected by Mr. Emil Mannhardt, secretary of the German-American Historical Society of Chicago, and a historian of undoubted ability. Mr. Mannhardt has been very conservative in his estimates, and has taken the lowest figures given by different authorities for the German element whenever authoritative statements were not obtainable. The conclusions he has reached will surprise those who still believe that the United States is in habited principally by the descendants of the so-called Anglo-Saxon race, but their correctness cannot be doubted. They are given here with the conviction that the researches of which they are the result were carefully and conservatively made, and with the knowledge that the information underlying the following table is correct and has been used with all necessary caution.

Mr. Mannhardt divides the population of the United States according to the Census of 1900 into three groups:

A. The descendants of the inhabitants of the United States before the year 1830.

B. The immigrants that arrived in the United States during the Nineteenth Century and their children.

C. The grandchildren and further descendants of the immigration of the Nineteenth Century.

He arrives at the following result:

1. Americans, that is that part of the population which had been so thoroughly assimilated in 1830 that its origin could not be ascertained. ... 12,713,036

2. Anglo-Saxons

A. 6,806,383

B. 4,242,882

C. 1,069,375

12.118,640

3. Germans

A. 12,046,919

B. 8,714,233

C. 4,716,431

25,477,383

4. Scandinavians

A …………

B. 2,223,345

C. 515,555

2,738,900

5. Dutch and Belgians

A. …………

B. 246,280

C. 50,010

296,290

6. Germans mixed with other Germanic races

A …………

B. 22,376

C. 29,942

52,318

7. Celts and Welsh

A. …………

B. 5,225,161

C. 2,850,182

8,075,343

8. Latin Races

A. …………

B. 1,860,966

C. 261,536

2,122,502

9. Slavs

B. 1,136,212