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My kingdom for a Democratic Party wrapped in the Union Army aesthetic.

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King Algamemnon@adamrothman.bsky.social · last mo.

Enjoy this article from a Minnesota newspaper in 1882 noting that Scandinavians love their home countries so much that it will take them generations to assimilate into America. www.loc.gov/resource/sn8...

SCANDINAVIANS No people on earth, probably excel the Scandinavians, and scarcely any equal them, unless it may be the Swiss mountaineers, in attachment to their native country. The Scandinavian emigrant brings with him to this country, not only his love of home, but his attachments to customs and habits of his old home. So strong is this passion that it is hard for him to assimilate to the customs of his new home, and to conform to the ideas of American citizenship, but he remains in his adopted land, a foreigner, in all that pertains to his modes, manners, habits, likes and dislikes.This peculiar habit of our Scandinavian fellow citizens, and this strong, over-mastering attachment to their native land, has not been generally known and appreciated by our own citizens, "to the manor born." It will take several generations to wear away this foster land attachment, and to assimilate the Scandinavian emigrant, and absorb him into the language, habits, customs and true idea of a homogeneous American citizenship.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Tom Emmer: "Minnesotans are so afraid that you're gonna call us a racist, you're gonna call us an Islamophobe. You know what? I'm done being even the least bit careful. Somalis don't assimilate. And if they don't assimilate, then they should go the hell back to where they came from."