[Alter Kaker]

Shared culture and heritage and a love of ideas from the European Enlightenment philosphers

So many Norwegian farmers reading works of European enlightment philosophers? You are very funny.

[wardaddy]

So many Norwegian farmers reading works of European enlightment philosophers?

Actually you are quite funny.....educate yourself and go look up the ethnicities of free colonists here at the time of the revolution. Mostly English, Dutch, French Huguenots and a few others.....and the leaders were almost exclusively English descended.

The Nordic immigrants came about 50-70 years later.