Ethnic America Quotes

“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.”
― 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”
― 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.”
― Thomas Sowell, Ethnic America: A History

“The routes traveled by cargo ships depended upon the pattern of trade. This meant that the immigrants did not select their destinations but landed wherever the ship was going. For example, the Irish came to America in vessels that carried lumber from the northeastern United States, so that is where they landed when the ships returned. Many Germans took cargo vessels that carried cotton to Le Havre and returned to New Orleans—where empty space on Mississippi river-boats returning to northern cargo shipping points carried the Germans through the upper Mississippi Valley to settle in such places as Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Milwaukee. The American beer industry was created by the Germans in the latter two cities, with Budweiser originating in St. Louis and numerous other brands in Milwaukee.”
― Thomas Sowell, Ethnic America: A History

“but that their intensity has lessened and in some respects disappeared.”
― Thomas Sowell, Ethnic America: A History

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

“She was nicknamed Molly Pitcher, and won fame by taking her husband’s place at a cannon after he had been wounded. The”
― Thomas Sowell, Ethnic America: A History

“German chocolate”
― Thomas Sowell, Ethnic America: A History