re: #381 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

That part of the US was a real melting pot. There’s a Swedish-American museum (very tiny!) in that part of Iowa, too. People nowadays don’t realize how diverse the USA has always been, though now they would not consider Swedes and Czechs to be especially diverse.

Even in the colonies days. One of the signers of the Declaration, I forget his name offhand but he was of Finnish ancestry. This whole “Anglo-Saxon heritage” stuff has always been absurd and just done by Americans of Protestant British descent to make themselves feel like this was their country before us Ethnics and PoC “ruined it”.