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Book: Ethnic America: A History
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  1. Thomas Sowell _ Ethnic America: A History

    The United States as a whole is larger than the Roman Empire at its greatest expansion.
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  2. Thomas Sowell _ Ethnic America: A History

    The initial wealth of a group and its time of arrival are obviously important, as many wealthy "old families " show, but the Jews arrived late and penniless in the nineteenth century and are now more affluent than any other ethnic group."
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  3. Thomas Sowell _ Ethnic America: A History

    As in the general society, fertility tends to be greatest where people are poorest: "The rich get richer, and the poor have children." In"
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  4. Thomas Sowell _ Ethnic America: A History

    Today, there are more people of Irish ancestry in the United States than in Ireland, more Jews than in Israel, more blacks than in most African countries. There are more people of Polish ancestry in Detroit than in most of the leading cities in Poland, and more than twice as many people of Italian ancestry in New York as in Venice.
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