Reply #43: no immigration isn't the reason [View All]

[amazona]

If you read the whole article, they address this. The study specifically controlled for it.

Millions upon millions of starving people, who had less to eat than today's Mexicans, such as the starving Irish (fleeing the potato famine) and many other starving populations immigrated by the millions in the 1800s and 1900s. There were always huge waves of immigrants in the United States, yet it had the tallest population ON AVERAGE until very recently. We had a huge immigrant population in those years and were famous for being a nation of immigrants.

The immigrants are not responsible for dragging down the statistics or we would have never been "up there" in the stats to begin with as, let's face it, the nation was settled in huge numbers by immigrants.

By the way, there is also a huge wave of immigrants moving into Europe at this time but apparently the "average height" of Europeans continues to increase.

I got a chuckle about the Dutch being so tall...I thought smoking was supposed to stunt your growth! :-)