Hunky Culture
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| Hunkies |
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| Total population |
| Regions with significant populations |
| Languages |
| English |
| Religions |
| Predominantly Catholic and Eastern Orthodox. A small minority practice Protestantism and other faiths. Some Hunkies have atheistic or agnostic beliefs. |
| Related ethnic groups |
| Other Slavic peoples, especially West Slavs |
The Hunkies are a composite Hungarian/Western Slavic ethnic group which primarily inhabits western Pennsylvania and speaks English.
The term Hunky can by applied to various Slavic and/or Hungarian immigrants to America from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Hunky customs include holding weddings and funeral receptions in fire halls, where rigatoni, halubki (stuffed cabbage), and pirogi are most commonly served.
Hunkies tended to settle in highly industrial areas: they worked in steel mills in western Pennsylvania; in the coal mines of West Virginia and Scranton, Pennsylvania; and in the shoe factories, leather tanneries, and rubber mills in the area around Binghamton, New York. Northeastern Ohio has a vibrant Hunky culture, especially the former steel towns of Cleveland and Youngstown, Ohio.
The use of the term Hunky as a disparaging reference to a person, especially a laborer, from East-Central Europe, is falling into disuse.[1]
