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Teddy Roosevelt: “Some latter-day writers deplore the enormous immigration to our shores as making us a heterogeneous instead of a…”

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Some latter-day writers deplore the enormous immigration to our shores as making us a heterogeneous instead of a homogeneous people; but as a matter of fact we are less heterogeneous at the present day than we were at the outbreak of the Revolution.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt argues against the notion that immigration has made America more heterogeneous, asserting that the nation was already diverse at the time of the Revolution.

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