Central-Eastern European Minorities in the United States

THERE is no part of the United States that does not have its bloc of recent immigrants. The central-eastern European minorities are widely scattered. The Greeks and the Balkan peoples have settled chiefly in New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, California, and Massachusetts. About 3,000,000 Poles or people of Polish parentage are scattered throughout Pennsylvania and the Middle West. There are 170,000 Czechs in Illinois, Nebraska, Texas, New York, and Pennsylvania; 555,000 Slovaks in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, and New Jersey; and about 250,000 Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, and peoples of Bosnia and Hercegovina, in the Middle West. The Croatian center is in Chicago, and the Slovenian centers are in Cleveland, Chicago, Gary, and Akron. Similar facts can be established concerning the Finns in the East and Middle West, the Rumanians, Ukrainians, Austrians, Germans, Hungarians, Albanians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Russians, and Estonians

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