GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION OF IMMIGRANTS 
This map illustrates the distribution in states and geo 
graphical divisions of the 13,500,000 foreign born in the 
United States in 1910. It indicates clearly a marked ten 
dency toward concentration in two of the divisions and in 
four of the states, with the result that virtually eighty-four 
out of every one hundred of all the immigrants are in the 
North Atlantic (Middle Atlantic and New England) and 
North Central (East and West) divisions, and nearly one- 
half of the total—fifty out of every one hundred—in the 
four states of Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and 
Illinois. In all that vast section south of Pennsylvania and 
the Ohio River, Missouri, and Kansas and east of New 
Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico are to be 
found the insignificant proportion of five out of every one 
hundred foreign horn. The Mountain and Pacific divisions, 
comprising eleven states, have about ten out of every one 
hundred. The economic causes of this remarkable difference 
in the geographical distribution of our foreign-born popu 
lation, the widely varying factors affecting the older as dis 
tinguished from the newer immigration, and other signifi 
cant influences and tendencies, are discussed in the text.