In 1919, the median I.Q. score of Italian 10-year-olds in New York City was 84; for native-born whites, it was 109.

Originally Créoles referred to native-born whites of French-Spanish descent.

For native-born whites, the rate is 20.1 percent.

While blacks faced racial discrimination from native-born whites, the Irish suffered from anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic attitudes.

Confederate General Wade Hampton III's tenure as governor after a disputed and violent election in 1876 marked the return to power of native-born whites.

Surprisingly, immigrants from the former Soviet Union live in neighborhoods that rank particularly well with respect to crime, disease and unsafe housing - even when compared with native-born whites.

The crime rate for neighborhoods occupied by those immigrants ranked lowest on the list, at 8.69 incidents per 1,000 residents, compared with 9.39 for native-born whites.

And in terms of housing safety, the average number of buildings with code violations for Soviet immigrants was 0.14, compared with 0.23 for native-born whites.

It's not the population's changing ethnic mix due to immigration: the stagnation of American heights is clear even if you restrict the comparison to non-Hispanic, native-born whites.

On a local Spanish-language radio program, Mr. Ponce recently challenged his fellow immigrants to do more to connect to native-born whites and blacks.