An Analysis of the Causes and Consequences of Foreign-Born Population Growth in the Midwest and South-central States, 1950-1990 July 1996 Tzu-Ling Huang Peter F. Orazem Department of Economics Department of Economics Ming Chuan University Iowa State University ____________________________ Conversations with Willis Goudy, Wally Huffman, John Miranowski and Dan Otto at various stages of the research are gratefully acknowledged. We thank Parul Pant for research assistance and Donna Otto for help in preparing the manuscript.