"Bobbitt dramatically warned that two sinister processes were at work in America. The first was the “drying up of the highest, purest tributaries to the stream of heredity” referring to the decreasing birthrate of the native AngloSaxon stock (Bobbitt, 1909, p. 388)11. The second was the “rising flood in the muddy, undesirable streams” referring to the large differential in birthrates of the more recent influx of non-Anglo, non-Nordic immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe as well as the slaves brought to America before the Civil War.”(Kohlman, 2013, p.668)