[39] Since the Russo-Japanese War, Siberia has absorbed great numbers of Russian immigrants. This accounts for the small number that have come to America.
[40] Our Slavic Fellow Citizens, p. 280.
[41] On the Trail of the Immigrant, p. 27.
[42] The census figures show that approximately half the Italian immigrants return to their native land. American officers in the Great War were surprised to find so many Italian soldiers who spoke English. In 1910 there remained in the United States only 1,343,000 Italians who were born in Italy, and the total number of persons of Italian stock in the United States was 2,098,000.
[43] According to the Census of 1910 there were 544,000 Italians in New York City
[44] The Census of 1910 gives the following distribution of the American white population by percentages:
| Location | Native stock | Native born of Foreign or mixed parentage | Foreign born |
| Rural districts | 64.1 | 13.3 | 7.5 |
| Cities 2,500 - 10,000 | 57.5 | 20.6 | 13.9 |
| " 10,000 - 25,000 | 50.4 | 24.6 | 17.4 |
| " 25,000 - 100,000 | 45.9 | 26.5 | 20.2 |
| " 100,000 - 500,000 | 38.9 | 31.3 | 22.1 |
| " 200,000 and over | 25.6 | 37.2 | 33.6 |
The native white element predominates in the country but is only a fraction of the population in the larger cities.