Manipulated statistics presented old-stock dominance as proportionate fairness.

Evidence

The analysis sought to prove that quotas based on the census of 1890 would not discriminate either against the old immigration or against the new. By relying on a recent census monograph that reflected a similar curiosity about the ancestry of the American people, and by making several assumptions, Trevor was able to argue that about 12 per cent of the American people derived from southern and eastern Europe; yet on the basis of the census of 1910 those countries were allocated about 44 per cent of the total quota immigration. They would have 15 per cent if the 1890 census were applied. Consequently Johnson’s bill would give the new immigration justice tempered by liberality. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1931

Categorization

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Broader Connections

• Equating equal income with equal circumstances hides the joint return’s racial bias #expands (0.78) — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 41