CHAPTER VI 
DISTRIBUTION THE NEWER 
IMMIGRATION 
Some of the reasons why the earlier immigra 
tion down to 1880 passed over the South and 
was distributed most largely throughout the 
agricultural northwest have been given. The 
distribution of the newer immigration—that 
arriving since 1880—presents a different sit 
uation. 
Many economic cross currents enter in to 
disconcert us and to prevent our securing a 
clear view of this distribution. It is extremely 
easy to confuse cause and effect and a difficult 
matter to give proper emphasis to each of the 
economic factors. Among these factors were 
the unprecedented increase in our foreign-born 
population following 1880, the change in its 
racial composition, the very rapid growth of 
manufactures and industries, the startling in 
crease in the population of our large cities as 
well as in the number of cities, and the relative 
decline in the influence of agricultural develop 
ment as it affected immigration. 
Was the large increase in immigration the 
cause or the effect of the rapid growth of in 
dustries and manufactures? 
We can say that it was both cause and effect, 
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