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Foreign Born

Massive immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe sustained the foreign-born proportion of the American population at about 14 percent from 1880 to 1920. Legal restrictions on immigration slowed the flow of foreign-born persons into the American population. The foreign-born share declined to a low of 5 percent in 1970, when it began climbing again. By the end of the century, the foreign-born proportion had climbed back to 10 percent.

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