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.
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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