Robert Porter

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1890 United States Census
He was particularly pleased about being able to analyze the three things most feared by the "race suicide" crowd: immigration rates, immigrant fertility rates, and mixed race marriages (or what the census called the "conjugal condition"), all of which...
Robert Porter, head of the 1890 census, who had overseen the adoption of Hollerith's tabulator machines, was deeply impressed by their power to sort immigrant and non-white populations based on numerous demographic variables.