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foreign origin have been assimilated into the American language for years, and (after all some of) the foreign-bom still do become American citizens.”
For all the time and effort, “the Extension Service survey on which some folks are reacting is guesstimate at the very best,” the state employee said.
Whatever the survey’s worth. Columnist Jack Anderson trumpeted the> results before the survey was published. In 1977, he said, “21 per cent of farm sales” in the US were to “well-heeled foreigners.”
A few days later on Jan. 17 the agriculture department reported that “foreign buyers accounted for about 2V« per cent,” or 826,543 acres of the 25 million acres of farmland sold in a year. United Press International characterized that 2% per cent as “enough to fill the state of Rhode Island.”
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