The last 200 years of immigration to the United States
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I was a bit surprised by the huge swathe of Russians that showed up at the turn of the 20th century. I don't feel like I see much ethnic Rus presence in the US, so I wonder if they were listed as Russian because some of those countries only just began to exist (or re-emerge). It would make sense that Polish immigration would be zero while Poland wasn't a country, only for it to become one, and then Russian and Polish immigration swap.
Maybe they are all in their former colony of Alaska?
There are random blocks of Eastern Europeans scattered about. They tend to keep to themselves.
Not just in Alaska, I know of least two st petersburgs in the lower 48 (one in florida, the other in Iowa).