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During the 19th and early 20th centuries, about 1.3 million Swedes left Sweden for the United States of America. While the land of the American frontier was a magnet for the rural poor all over Europe, some factors encouraged Swedish emigration in particular.
Swedish-Americans have deeply influenced America's coffee culture. Their fondness for quality coffee was introduced to the US alongside their migration. [2] While substitutes for coffee were common in Sweden due to its scarcity, the accessibility of genuine coffee beans in America transformed the coffee drinking habits of Swedish Americans.
The New Sweden Company established a colony on the Delaware River in 1638, naming it New Sweden.The colony was lost to the Dutch in 1655. [3]Between 1846 and 1930, roughly 1.3 million people, about 20% of the Swedish population, left the country.
Like their Norwegian American and Danish American brethren, many Swedes sought out the agrarian lifestyle they had left behind in Sweden, as many immigrants settled on farms throughout the Midwest. There are towns scattered throughout the Midwest, such as Lindsborg, Kansas and Lindström, Minnesota , that to this day continue to celebrate their ...
The first Swedish head of government who met with a US President was Prime Minister Tage Erlander, who visited Harry S. Truman at the White House in 1952. The period between 1960 and 1968 also marked a cold period in the political relations between Sweden and the U.S., mainly due to the Swedish government's vocal opposition to the Vietnam War.
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About 15,000-30,000 people left Sweden annually after 1965. Sweden welcomed refugees and displaced persons at the end of World War II. Because of the low birth rate, immigration accounted for 45% of population growth between 1945 and 1980. [3] Sweden became highly urbanized after World War II, reaching 83% urban in 1990.
Sweden is considered one of the world's most secular nations, with a high proportion of irreligious people. [9] Phil Zuckerman, an associate professor of Sociology at Pitzer College, [10] writes that several academic sources have in recent years placed atheism rates in Sweden between 46% and 85%, with one source reporting that only 17% of respondents self-identified as "atheist". [11]