The best of the Swedes — men and women both, many of them teenagers — packed their cardboard suitcases and came to the U.S. in the early years of the 1900s. My grandparents were among them, thank heaven. They were proud to be Swedes, but they never looked back. The “Old Country” has never been the same.
Indeed they did. I have a very good Swedish friend living in Michigan. His last name being Hansen.