Showing the growth of the Norwegian foreign-born population in each state by decades in 1850 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 Maine 12 27 58 99 311 509 New Hampshire 2 5 55 79 251 295 Vermont 8 34 10 38 54 Massachusetts 69 171 302 639 2,519 3,335 Rhode Island 25 38 22 56 285 342 Connecticut 1 22 72 168 529 709 New York 392 539 975 2,185 8,602 12,601 New Jersey 4 65 90 229 1,317 2,296 Maryland 10 7 17 108 164 246 Delaware 6 14 49 District of Columbia 1 5 19 70 101 Pennsylvania 27 83 115 381 2,238 1,393 Virginia 5 8 17 29 102 123 West Virginia 1 3 7 19 North Carolina 4 5 10 13 21 South Carolina 4 5 23 49 Florida 17 11 16 79 179 235 Georgia 6 13 14 23 88 155 Alabama 3 51 21 24 47 159 Tennessee 14 37 25 41 141 Kentucky 18 10 16 21 120 34 Mississippi 8 15 78 56 54 74 Louisiana 64 63 76 7 136 189 Arkansas 1 5 19 33 60 123 Missouri 155 146 297 373 526 530 Ohio 18 19 64 178 511 639 Indiana 18 38 123 182 285 384 Illinois 2,415 4,891 11,880 16,970 30,339 29,979 Michigan 110 440 1,516 3,520 7,795 7,582 Wisconsin 8,651 21,442 40,046 49,349 65,696 61,575 Iowa 361 5,688 17,554 21,583 27,078 25,634 Minnesota 7 8,425 35,940 62,521 101,169 104,895 Kansas 223 588 1,358 1,786 1,477 Nebraska 506 2,010 3,632 2,833 South Dakota } 129 1,179 13,245 {19,257 19,788 North Dakota } {25,773 30,206 Wyoming 28 74 345 378 Colorado 12 40 354 893 1,149 Oklahoma 36 118 Texas 326 403 880 1,313 1,356 Arizona 7 45 59 123