| Editor's Note | Indiana Magazine of History, 103.1

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Editor's Note

The Hoosier state is known for many things, but a diverse population has never been among them. In its largest city, Indianapolis, a foreign-born population that once comprised nearly one-quarter of the city's total declined steeply through the twentieth century to less than two percent by 1990—a date at which the city ranked second-lowest (after Memphis, Tennessee) among the nation's fifty largest in its proportion of foreign-born. Even in the late 1800s, when Indianapolis's foreign-born residents comprised a significant segment of its total population, the Hoosier capital still ranked near-last in that category, ahead only of a clutch of southern cities.

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