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Norway, with its 1920 population pegged at 2,691,855, saw 693,450 Norwegians setting sail for American shores, constituting 32.4% of the Scandinavian influx. Denmark, home to 3,268,907 people in 1920, chipped in with 300,008 immigrants, forming 14.1% of the Scandinavian immigration to the US across that century.
Although today Norway is relatively secular, [27] Norwegian-Americans are among the most religious ethnic groups in the United States, with 90% acknowledging a religious affiliation in 1998. [26] Because membership to the State Church was mandatory until the 19th century in Norway, all ethnic Norwegians have traditionally been Lutheran.
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When I watch the news coverage about the flow of migrants at the southern border of the U.S., I think: Shouldn't we be seeing more arrivals here in Minnesota? Of course, there's no way to know an ...
Of Minnesota's population in the year 2000, 850,742 said that they have Norwegian ancestry.Of them 414,901 (48.8%) were male, and 435,841 (51.2%) were female. As of 2008, the median age was 36, in contrast to 35 for the whole Minnesotan population, 36.7 for the whole American population, and 39.4 for Norway's population.
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Of the 6,507 immigrants who arrived in that year there were 100 deaths. In 1859, however, emigration dropped off with only 16 vessels arriving from Norway carrying 1,756 passengers. Of the over 28,460 Norwegians who came to Canada in the 1850s it is estimated that only 400 remained in Canada the majority moved on into the American west.
Then & Now: How immigration reshaped the look of a Minnesota farm town By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO and JESSIE WARDARSKI Associated Press WORTHINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Immigration from around the world has transformed Worthington , bringing new businesses to emptying downtown storefronts as well as new worship and recreational spaces to this town of ...