Some of the important conclusions supported by these statistics naturally raise the question whether the petitions studied are, in respect of country of origin, really typical of the whole foreign-born population of the country. This question seems to be disposed of by a compilation showing the racial distribution of the petitioners studied, compared with the racial distribution of all unnaturalized foreign-born white aliens 21 years of age or older in the country as a whole, and in the nine large cities covered by this investigation.
TABLE XVI
Comparison by Races of (1) a Naturalization Petitioners Studied, (2) Unnaturalized Males Twenty-one Years or Over in Nine Cities{1} Where Petitions Were Filed, and in The Country as a Whole, in 1910{2}
| Country of Birth | Petitioners Studied 1913–14 | Unnaturalized{3} Foreign-born White Males Twenty-one Years of Age and Over in Nine Cities, in 1910 | Unnaturalized Foreign-born White Males Twenty-one Years of Age and Over In the United States in 1910 | |||
| Number | Per Cent | Number | Per Cent | Number | Per Cent | |
| All countries | 26,284 | 100.0 | 437,517 | 100.0 | 2,837,307 | 100.0 |
| Russia | 7,864 | 29.9 | 107,393 | 24.5 | 481,532 | 17.0 |
| Austria | 3,875 | 14.7 | 59,252 | 13.5 | 407,977 | 14.4 |
| Italy | 3,591 | 13.7 | 98,595 | 22.5 | 523,964 | 18.5 |
| Hungary | 2,443 | 9.3 | 31,194 | 7.1 | 200,274 | 7.1 |
| Germany | 2,305 | 8.8 | 35,425 | 8.1 | 219,133 | 7.7 |
| Ireland | 1,773 | 6.7 | 16,453 | 3.8 | 116,613 | 4.1 |
| England | 831 | 3.2 | 14,807 | 3.4 | 112,317 | 4.0 |
| Sweden | 616 | 2.3 | 8,675 | 2.0 | 92,289 | 3.3 |
| Rumania | 569 | 2.2 | 5,778 | 1.3 | 17,498 | 0.6 |
| Norway | 389 | 1.5 | 4,084 | 0.9 | 66,802 | 2.4 |
| Canada | 385 | 1.5 | 9,229 | 2.1 | 176,868 | 6.2 |
| Scotland | 288 | 1.1 | 5,299 | 1.2 | 38,940 | 1.4 |
| Denmark | 200 | 0.8 | 1,881 | 0.4 | 27,045 | 1.0 |
| Switzerland | 197 | 0.8 | 4,039 | 0.9 | 16,942 | 1.6 |
| Finland | 144 | 0.6 | 2,395 | 0.5 | 43,737 | 1.5 |
| Turkey in Asia | 142 | 0.5 | 1,883 | 0.4 | 22,776 | 0.8 |
| Holland | 139 | 0.5 | 930 | 0.2 | 18,116 | 0.6 |
| Turkey in Europe | 92 | 0.3 | 1,650 | 0.4 | 19,546 | 0.7 |
| Greece | 90 | 0.3 | 5,393 | 1.2 | 62,758 | 2.2 |
| France | 86 | 0.3 | 4,116 | 0.9 | 21,457 | 0.8 |
| Wales | 32 | 0.1 | 294 | 0.1 | 6,424 | 0.2 |
| Spain | 23 | 0.1 | 932 | 0.2 | 10,037 | 0.4 |
| Portugal | 8 | .... | 92 | .... | 19,557 | 0.7 |
| No information | 23 | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... |
| Other | 179 | 0.8 | 17,728 | 4.1 | 114,705 | 4.0 |
note 1: Cleveland, New York (Boroughs of Manhattan, Bronx, and Queens); Bridgeport, Connecticut; Cincinnati; Paterson, New Jersey; Portland, Oregon; Rochester, New York; Seattle, Washington; Worcester, Massachusetts.
note 2: United States Census, 1910, vol. 1, chap. xi.
note 3: Includes aliens and those holding first papers.
Considerable variations will be observed between the racial distribution of petitioners studied and that of the unnaturalized but potentially naturalizable males in the whole country in 1910. For instance, while 18.5 per cent of the unnaturalized persons in the United States were born in Italy, only 13.7 per cent of the petitioners studied were Italians; on the other hand, while 29.9 per cent of the petitioners studied were from Russia, only 17 per cent of the unnaturalized males in the United States in 1910 were Russians.