Excerpt from Statistics of Foreign Parentage: Number of Persons Having One or Both Parents Foreign Born, 1870 to 1890 In 1890 the tabulations regarding foreign parentage comprehended for white persons not only Ireland and Germany, which were the only countries separately tabulated in 1880, but also each of the countries comprising the nationality groups used in 1880, as England, Scotland, and Wales instead of Great Britain Sweden, Norway, and Denmark instead of Scandinavia; a separation according to French and English extraction for Canada and Newfoundland, besides giving in addition thereto those countries from which more recent contributions of noticeable proportions have been received, particularly during the past decade, as Bohemia, Hungary, France, Italy, and Russia. The colored population in 1890 was only tabulated as regards the number who were either of native or foreign parentage.
Considering first the results arrived at in 1890 in a general way, it appears that the whole number of persons of foreign parentage, without regard to color, was or per cent of the total population, which in 1890 was The whole number of white persons of foreign parentage in 1890 was while the colored persons of foreign parentage numbered The foreign white in 1890 numbered of which or per cent, were of native parentage, that is, had both parents native born. The whole number of foreign white persons of foreign parentage in 1890 was, therefore leaving native white persons of foreign parentage. The number of foreign colored who were of native parentage was not separately tabulated in 1890.
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