Now immigrants in America are elites. Were all the immigrants to America before World War II elites?

No, but mostly people or talents who are very useful to the United States.

The first batch of Puritan immigrants and Europeans who arrived in America in the early days included a large number of elites. Since then, a large number of immigrants are industrial workers and technicians, poor people, investment immigrants (the cost of building factories or plantations in the United States is much lower than that in Europe), black slaves and so on. .

When the United States was founded, the total population of the United States was only 3.9 million. Except for about 760 thousand black slaves, the rest are almost all white, and most of them come from Britain and western Europe.

After the end of the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, a large number of soldiers were demobilized, resulting in serious unemployment in European countries. At this time, because of the need of domestic construction, the United States changed its policy of restricting immigration. 1848 after the European revolution, the wave of immigration to the United States is getting higher and higher. From 1820 to 100, the United States accepted about 33.5 million immigrants, which formed a century-long immigration tide in the United States. Mainly industrial workers and technicians, Irish and Germans have the largest number, which is the main reason why Irish descendants rank first and German descendants rank second in the American population today.

In the tide of immigration to the United States, the largest number are laborers and industrial workers, followed by scientists and technical personnel from all walks of life. There are high, middle and low-end people, but they are still in the middle-labor and industrial workers. .