Thread 216521484

two kings

>>216521484 (OP)
1800s Swedes saw picrel and though "yeah fuck this I'm going to Minneapolis"

>>216521688
1800s Scandinavia sucked ass. People weren't living in fairy tale romanticists novels. They were fighting for their fucking lives.

>>216521807
>fighting winter for your life, Scandinavia /:
>fighting winter for your life (plus also having to fight Amerindians scalpers), Midwest 0:

>>216521822
tbf, much smaller likelyhood of being drafted in some always looming european grossenwar

>>216521822
that's why it was so popular, europeans could go on a birth rite trip to america and get free native land from the government. That's what happened FR. they forced the natives onto reservations and gave white people free farmland.

>be a buttfuck poor ass peasant in europe
ORRRRRR
>get a bunch of free land from the state because you were white and moved west

honestly it's a nofucking brainer. The pioneers weren't some cool, live off the land white people, they got free shit from the state and moved onto a free farmstead, holy welfare!!!!

>>216521822
In my country we had massive famine in 1866-1868

>>216521822
>>216523690
>>216521688
Sweden too
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_famine_of_1867%E2%80%931869
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_famine_of_1866%E2%80%931868

>>216521484 (OP)
Nigga Swedish economy is smaller than Polish you ain't a king nigga