#but the documentary therefore pointed out most swedes that emigranted did not go as an entire family

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Interesting commentary that is getting its own post because the other post is getting long haha

I am so not a swedish soil expert (i have a master degree in gender studies in fact, so i am in no way an authority on the topic of swedish geology haha)

And on the topic of me being no soil expert, the part of sweden i am from (and the picture is taken) got a majority of clay filled glacial till, not sandy soil. Well at least were we grow crops in mälardalen.

Not the patch i took a photo obvoiusly but. Anyway, from what i recall from my parents talking about gardening in the location our house in, it is rock filled. And at the location our house is in, in fact so rock filled there was no. Erm. Soil? If it is called that in english. More, rock heh.

(As my original post mentioned i grew up in a neighbourhood built on a wetland. Ah still existing wetland. A wetland still flooding all the paths every spring wetland heh).

Anyway, they needed to buy soil and construct over our entire garden so it was possible to. Garden there. All the soil the plants were in was transplanted.

Also, about minnesotas not being similiar to sweden/being similiar i suspect that saying is not so much based on. Proper comparing if nature and soil quality, but a marketing tactic to swedish settlers who went to minnesota as a part of usa goverment colonisation tactics. I do vaguelly recall that many swedish immigrants came to usa at the very same time that usa was trying to conquer minnesota as a part of the usa state.

The swedish immigrants to minnesota were often a part of usa goverments campaigns to get usa citizens to settle land not previously settled by usa citizen. That is, to get usa citizens to settle native american lands.

It was something like that. Dont qoute me on it, this is my recalling from memory some different swedish documentaries and such about swedish immigrantion to america.

Another tidbit i recall from those documentaries was that well the most known about immigrantion from sweden to america are the ones who became farmers in usa. The absolute majority did not become farmers, and never had that intention to become so. Must worked in the growing cities of usa, with construction and so on. Many also worked as servants in the cities. They had often seen an ad (in sweden) for workers for forexemple "construction workers to work at building this neighbourhood" or "a maid from a good swedish family", and went to usa with the goal to get that job.

Afterwards many actually went back home sweden. Not all, but much than many swedish people useally believe