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The Wall Street Journal in a recent
issue had a story on the possible make
up of the questionnaire which will be
used for the 1980 census. And again it
appears that it will be impossible to
establish the true ethnic origins of
minority groups such as the Croatians,
Serbs, Slovaks, Slovenes, Bohemians,
etc.
Our Croatian Organizations have for
years tried to have the U.S. Census
Bureau include a question that would
identify the number of Croatians in this
country. This has never been
established, although there have been
estimates as high as 2 million people of
Croatian descent in this country.
In the early years of Croatian
Migration to the United States, the
majority of our people, coming from
the former Austro-Hungaria- n
provinces, were listed either as
Austrians or in some cases as
Hungarians and in some cases as
Italians, and never were listed as
Croatians. Of course passports were
issued by the Austro-Hungaria- n
government so they were listed as
nationals of Austro-Hungar- y and this
worked against the Croatians when the
new Yugoslavia was. established,
because quotas were being based on the
country of origin and most of the quota
for the Croatians went to Austria or to
Hungary and the Croatians were thus
always shortchanged.
It appears that this situation will
continue in the future because, from all
indications, this question will not be
asked in the census form that is being
prepared for the 1980 census.
The 1980 census will continue the long
tradition of racial classification by
asking people to designate themselves
as "White", "Black or Negro",
"American Indian", "Asian or Pacific
Islander" or some equally non-identifyi- ng
designation. According to
the census officials, this type of
question no longer satisfies the growing
interest in the ethnic roots of
Americans. Various groups, and among
them the Croatians, are seeking
mention on the census form as a
specific ethnic designation. .
Every ethnic category wishes to have
a question in the form relating to their
ethnic background and the census
planners are now experimenting with a
format for the ethnic questionnaire. A
test questionnaire was sent out in
Oakland, California last April asking
people to identify themselves as Afro-America- n,
Spanish, European except
Spaniard, or other. The people checking
the last three boxes were then invited to
write in a specific origin thus avoiding a
specific printed list of ethnic desig-nations.
Our people, too, have petitioned
the Federal government to .include
a question on ethnic origin, but the
Census Department is against listing
the names of each nationality because
that would enlarge the questionnaire to
a great extent. They would, like to have
just simply a question "Of what ethnic
origin are you" and if they stick by that
decision or opinion' then itwill be the
same as it has been in the past, because
when they put down ethnic origin most
of our younger Arherican-bor- n
generation will simply state that they
are Americans, whichjstrue.
So accurate enumeration of the
number of Croatians in this country will
remain a secret fore cr unless a specific
question was asked in the questionnaire
as to whether they are of Croatian,
Slovak, Serbian, Italian, German or
whatever nationality is in --question. Our
' people would like to have them
ask „the question "Are you
of Croatian descent" but it
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appears now that this question
will not be included, because to include
the questions on Croatians would mean
that they would have to add at least a
hundred different nationalities in the
census form and this would increase the
size of the form and make it too un-wieldy
and bulky. According to what
some members of Congress believe,
there is very little interest in the
question except by a few
nationalistically inclined ethnic groups.
It is unfortunate that such a question
could not have been asked when the
1890, 1900 and 1910 censuses were taken,
because then it would have been
possible to establish the number of
Croatians who had entered this country
from the old Austro-Hungaria- n
provinces which are today a part of
Yugoslavia.
The best estimate of the number of
Croatians now residing in this country
was contained in a book authored by the
late Vece Holjevac, a former Mayor of
Zagreb. This book was published in 1967
and went into a great amount of detail
as to the number of Croatians that left
that country for the United States in the
years from about 1887 to 1915 when
immigration from the former Austro-Hungaria- n
lands was at its highest. And
according to these figures, there were
approximately 557,000 Croatians who
had come to this country from Croatia.
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The late Josip former
National President of the old National
Croatian Society, took census in the
1900 and he tried to establish the
number of residing in this
by to all of the old NCS
lodges or Croatian people in different
communities. At that time he came up
with total of 112,995 Croatians living in
this As indicated, the late
Marohnic wrote to every
Croatian located in every state and
community in the United States
he belived that Croatians lived. His
figure for Pennsylvania in the 1900
census which was in book
form in 1902 shows that there were
approximately 38,000 Croatians living
in Pennsylvania in the year 1900. This
was the largest number for any state.
The second Croatian
was located in of Illinois,
to this census, where ap-proximately
12,000 Croatians lived. And
strangely enough, was third
with 10,000 Croatians residing there.
At the time of the 1900 census by
Marohnic, there were approximately
250 Croatians living in Alabama and
another 200 living in Alaska. There
were even 400 listed for Arkansas
territory and Georgia had
50 Croatians
therein while Florida came up with 200.
Maryland and Maine had 50 Croatians
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organiziranog drustuenog rada
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ranog drustvenog rada doseljenlka sr"o ' ml uklju6eni, predo6i na§
iz Jugoslav!je, kojega ovdje preno- - organ izovani rad u toku od 100
simo za nase oitaoce: godina.
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naseg organ izovanog rada u Argen- - ve6ina kapetana i pilota trgovacke
i tinNi.aSi rodoljubi preSasnlci, Hrva- - vlci Ргоб,°9Argsetontlijneecau.bdirluigoj ponlaoS-i-ti,
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da
jedni u tudem
tu.
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da svijetu
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usljed
mogla da dugo
nikako
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Croatians
country writing
a
country.
the
residing
each while the District of the
capitol of the United States, had but 25
Croatians residing therein. The state of
New York had 4,000 while the state of
Ohio had 6,000 Croatians living
the confines of those states, and West
Virginia and had 2,000
each. There were even 25 Croatians
listed as living in the Hawaii territory
at the time.
It must that the peak
of Croatian to this country
did not reach its height until about 1907
and 1908.
The 1980 census will the 20th
federal census conducted by our
government since the establishment of
the republic, and for the first time in
history most of the will
be mailed out to the citizens who will
then fill them out of that would
otherwise to census visiting
to get the
This year there will a number of
touchy questions that may asked of
the U.S. citizens, that is, if present
plans of the census bureau realized.
For example, there will be the really
touching on ethnic background
and then goes on to say that everyone
will asked the amount of their annual
income and this, too, may become a
very touchy question. There will also be
a question of the status of couples who
live together but without being
married. And there will other
questions in a similar vein which may
arouse the of the U. S. citizens to
the extend that they may to
answer some of the questions in the
questionnaire. The" final form of the
questionnaire, of course, has not been
established as yet, but this is the
direction in which we are headed and it
seems that we Croatians are again
doomed to insofar as the
total number of people now living in
this is concerned.
("Zajedni6ar", January 11, 1978)
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smo mi bili najprvi i je koloni-j- a danas a poslije nas
dolaze Bugari i ostale strane
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Tandilu i okolici, do 1926. na§i
ljudi bili u ogromnoj ve6ini,
pred svima ostalima,
mogu da
s gotovo svl iz Slovenskog Pata9°nJu u ono vrljeme kada ponos na svoje porljeklo, na pie- -
1 Primorja, Istre, Hrvatskog Primor-- cje,a dana§nja Patagonija nije meniti i poSteni rad svojih o6eva,
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i organizuju uzajamnu pripo-mo- c, drugima
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Provincije Buenos Aires i jug Santa
Poslije niza i naPucen zemljoradnicima u ovom znaku ulazimo u stotu
s travnja (aprila) na Prvom redu Talljanima u godiSnjicu naseg organizovanog
1878. godine ustanovljeno jeono na§im Jugoslavenima i rada u Argentini; дајеб uvijek
imamo: Jugoslavensko P°orncima. Ijubav prema nasoj novoj
Stvo uzajamne pripomoci, koje uz9aJanju vinogradarstva u Argentini, a tome nikada ne
toku godina uspjeSno djeio- - Mendozi su opet prvom mjestu zaboravimo staru.
vaionacasi ponos
...Istodobno osnivanjem Dru-Stv- a,
pokazu cijelom
"Iskra Slavjanske
pomanjkanja
sposobnih
godina,
vrljeme prezivjela ostavi-l- a
dragocjeno svjedofianst-v- o
naSIm ijudima onog
vremena, dozvo-Ijava- li
"Austro-Ugari-m- a" Slavenima, su
osjebali
u
Marohnlc,
prominent
published
largest population
according
California,
ap-proximately
mornarice
Columbia,
remembered
migration
questionnaires
information.
question
anonymity
country
Vecero) rastumacl drugom
posvecen organizi- -
pamuka
najveda,
doma6im
stranima.
potomci osjecaju
pomorci
Talijani. domovini,
dandanas
Argentine.
sastanaka dogovo- -
drugom
njihovim
domovini
slobode"
novfianih sred-sta- va
kadrova,
Washington
house-to-hous- e
kolo-nij- e.
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