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==Emigration From Slovenia== | ==Emigration From Slovenia== | ||
*Between 1880 and 1918 (World War I) many '''men left Slovenia to work in mining areas in other nations'''. The '''United States''' in particular has been a common choice for emigration, with the 1910 US Census showing that there were already "183,431 persons in the USA of Slovenian mother tongue". But there may have been many more, because '''a good number avoided anti-Slavic prejudice and "identified themselves as Austrians."''' | |||
*Favorite localities before 1900 were '''Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, as well as Omaha, Nebraska, Joliet, Illinois, Cleveland, Ohio, and rural areas of Iowa'''. | |||
*After 1910, they settled in '''Utah (Bingham Copper Mine), Colorado (especially Pueblo), and Butte, Montana'''. | |||
*These areas attracted first many single men (who often boarded with Slovenian families). After locating work and having sufficient money, the men sent back for their wives and families to join them. | |||
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