Everything about Hungarian American totally explained
Hungarian Americans are
American citizens of
Hungarian descent. Some notable examples include
Drew Barrymore,
George Cukor,
Béla Lugosi,
Adolph Zukor,
Andrew Grove,
Béla Bartók,
Harry Houdini,
Joseph Pulitzer,
Albert Szent-Györgyi,
Edward Teller,
Elie Wiesel,
Thomas Szasz,
George Pataki and
King Vidor. Many Hungarians fled to the
United States after the
Soviet invasion in 1956.
History
Hungarians have been a part of America for as long as Europeans have settled the
New World, with Hungarian Americans such as
Michael de Kovats, the founder of the
United States Cavalry, active in the
American Revolution. Hungarians have maintained a constant state of immigration to the United States since then, however are best known for three principle waves of immigration.
The first wave occurred in 1849-1850 by the so-called "Forty-niners," who emigrated to escape retribution by Austrian authorities after the defeat of the
Hungarian Revolution of 1848. By the turn of the century, the United States saw an immigration boom primarily of Southern and Eastern Europeans. Included in this wave was between 650,000-700,000 ethnic Hungarians. Unlike the educated gentry who formed the core of the
1849 wave, the second wave was mostly poor and uneducated immigrants seeking a better life in America.
The circumstances of the third wave of immigration had much in common with the first wave. In 1956, Hungary was again under the power of a foreign state, this time the
Soviet Union, and again Hungarians rose up in revolution. Like the revolution of 1848, the
1956 Hungarian Revolution failed and led to the emigration of 200,000 "56-ers" fleeing persecution after the revolution. 40,000 of them found their way to the United States.
Demographics
According to the
2000 US Census, there are 1,398,724 Hungarians in the
United States as of 2000.
Estimates of the number of Hungarians in the United States go well above 2 million. This number also includes the large number of ethnic Hungarian immigrants who have arrived to the US from Romania, Czechoslovakia, the former Yugoslavia.
The states with the largest Hungarian American populations include:
| Ohio |
193,951 |
New York |
137,029 |
California |
133,988 |
Pennsylvania |
132,184 |
New Jersey |
115,615 |
Michigan |
98,036 |
Florida |
96,885 |
Kiryas Joel, New York (The great majority of its residents are
Hasidic Jews belonging to the
Satmar Hasidic dynasty, originated from Hungary) where 18.9% of the total population claimed Hungarian as first ancesty. Other places with over 10% are
Fairport Harbor, Ohio (14.1%) and
West Pike Run Township, Pennsylvania (11,7%). About a hundred other places have +5% of Hungarians, but the highest number of Hungarians living in the same place is in
New York City.
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