Based on the map to the right, access to indoor plumbing varies greatly by region. Areas of South Dakota, Apache County in Arizona, Rio Grande in Texas, Appalachia in Kentucky and Virginia, and rural Alaska have high percentages of unplumbed households. While this outlook seems bleak, it helps to put it in perspective.
In 1901, Lazarusâs friend Georgina Schuyler began an effort to memorialize Lazarus and her poem, which succeeded in 1903 when a plaque bearing the text of the poem was mounted on the inner wall of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.â.
The meaning of the Statue of Liberty as a symbol of refuge and hope for immigrants became more prominent in the years after the dedication. During the fund-raising campaign for the pedestal, a young Jewish poet named Emma Lazarus had written a poem called The New Colossus..