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in part to the superior school facilities in cities, which by continually uplifting the native children tend to create a vacuum at the
bottom of the social scale, which calls for the importation of ignorant foreigners to do the necessary menial tasks, or the monotonous routine work of semi-skilled laborers in factories. This
state of affairs is accentuated by compulsory education, and is therefore more pronounced in the northern states that have had such a system much longer than Florida has.*


 *The following table will indicate something of the condition of the foreign population in a few large northern cities in 1910. All except Boston and New York are noted chiefly for their textile industries.






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Leading foreign nationalitiesM



Per cent of total population:I Foreign white -----..------- 35.91 42.61 48.11 40.91 44.1 40.4 36.1
 Native white, foreign orl mixed parents ---------- 38.31 43.71 37.91 39.51 33.5 38.2 40.0
Per cent of adult males: Foreign white ----.-------- 49.51 63.81 67.01 68.11 60 .7 57.8 54.7
 Native white, foreign orl
 mixed parents __-------_1 24.51 24.31 20.31. 22.91 15.41 23.71 24.5
Per cent of foreigners illit.:1 All over 10 .--------------- 10.01 23.51 22.21 11.71 20.81 13.21 14.5
 Adult males only -------- 1 8.61 23.21 14.81 12.01 14.51 10.71 11.8

 Most of the abbreviations for nationalities will be readily understood. Fr. Can. means French Canadians, and Can. all other Canadians.