Here is Everyone Who Has Emigrated to the United States Since 1820

[Jimbo101]

saw this at DailyKos

[cwydro]

1. Very cool.

Thanks for posting.

Saw my parents in there lol.

[NCTraveler]

2. Thanks for sharing. Nt

[doc03]

3. I didn't see anyone come from Africa until 1871? Don't they count the

thousands of Africans that were brought here as slaves?

[treestar]

4. Emigration may be

Defined as voluntary.

[doc03]

5. I guess so nt

[2naSalit]

6. I think that they aren't included in this

account since they didn't come here of their own accord. Emigration is a wilful action... kidnapping is something else altogether.

[Midwestern Democrat]

9. This only covers 1820 forward and the importation of slaves into the US was banned in 1808.

[GulfCoast66]

10. By 1820 it was illegal to import slaves

Both the US and Britain used their war ships to stop slavery traders. Had been doing so since 1808.

Of course there was some smuggling but by 1820 it was getting not as common. If I remember correctly there were like 4-5 million slaves in the South at the start of civil war and well over 95% were born in the US.

[doc03]

11. Hey you learn something every day, never knew that. So if 95% were born in the

US they were here decades before many immigrants from certain white countries were came here. In my experience the most racist whites I have seen are the ones that came over here in the early 1900s to work in the mills and mines.

[roamer65]

12. They are the ones most indoctrinated by divisive propoganda from the ruling elites.

[GulfCoast66]

13. Come on down to the deep south

The most racist are those whose ancestors were here during slavery but were too poor to own them.

The same con is still going on today...make poor whites feel superior to blacks and the exploit the hell out of the. LBJs famous quote comes to mind.

When upper class whites in the South talk about white trash the are actually making fun of the fact that they have been totally played. The rich understand the game.

Racial exploitation has its roots in economic exploitation.

[Rhiannon12866]

7. K&R! I agree, immensely cool! Thanks for posting!

And some of them are my relatives, maternal grandparents from Poland and paternal great grandparents from Ireland...

[Canoe52]

8. KnR!