Danish Americans
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Danish Americans are Americans of Danish descent.
Like other groups of Americans of Scandinavian descent, many of them are Lutherans. However, they contrast with Norwegian and Swedish Americans in that a large fraction were Mormon converts who settled in Utah and southeastern Idaho. Nebraska, Iowa and Wisconsin have the largest concentrations of non-Mormon Danish Americans.
Solvang, California, is an example of a community formed by Danish Americans. Racine, Wisconsin, claims to be the home to the largest group of Danish Americans in the United States.
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[edit] Food
As the Danes came to America, they also brought their foods with them. Popular Danish foods among Danish Americans are kringle and æbleskiver.
[edit] Religious affiliations
Most Danish Americans classify themselves as religious. The majority claim to be Lutheran. The oldest Danish-Lutheran congregation is Emmaus Lutheran Church in Racine, Wisconsin, and it was founded August 22, 1851. Nearby Kenosha, Wisconsin, is home to the second oldest Danish-Lutheran congregation, St. Mary's Lutheran Church. St. Mary's Lutheran is the largest congregation in the Greater Milwaukee Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Of the Danish Americans that are not Lutheran, a large number converted to Mormonism.
[edit] Danish-American communities
- Solvang, California
- Ames, Iowa
- Elk Horn, Iowa
- Montcalm County, Michigan
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Blair, Nebraska
- Dannebrog, Nebraska
- Danevang, Texas
- Denmark, Wisconsin
- Kenosha, Wisconsin
- Racine, Wisconsin
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