Presidential election, 2016

[Odin]

(01-15-2017, 12:05 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(01-15-2017, 10:26 AM)Odin Wrote: When people complain about Mexican-Americans "not assimilating" they are talking about the folks in parts of south Texas, SoCal, and the desert SW that had Hispanic populations even before the current wave of immigration and has shared cultural ties with northern Mexico (this is the region Colin Woodard calls "El Norte"). In my personal experience the Mexican-Americans who move out of that region do assimilate normally.

Let's also agree that maintaining cultural heritage practices is not the same as "not assimilating".  The whole point of Garrison Keeler's A Prairie Home Companion is the cultural links still in existence by the, in this case, Norwegian settlers who populated the Minnesota prairie in 19th and early 20th century.  Can we agree that today's Minnesotans of Norwegian heritage are fully assimilated?

Yep! Though Woodard notes that the reason that Scandinavians mostly settled in the Upper Midwest was because their culture was highly compatible with that of the New Englanders who were the earliest settlers in the Upper Midwest.