Although the vast majority of #CarpathoRusyns who came to the US during the major wave of immigration before World War I left small villages where they worked as small-scale farmers or as livestock herders, only a handful found jobs in agriculture in the US

until World War I, #CarpathoRusyns in the European homeland did not have any experience in politics. They were used to being ruled and not to participating in the governing process

Because religion was so important, it is not surprising that #CarpathoRusyns tried to recreate aspects of their church-directed life after immigrating to the United States

Upon arrival in the United States, the vast majority of #CarpathoRusyns identified with the state that they had left. It is, therefore, impossible to know their exact number

In the early years of the immigration, when #CarpathoRusyns did not yet have their own churches, many Byzantine Rite Catholics attended, and eventually joined, #Roman Catholic churches

Coming to the United States primarily before World War I, #CarpathoRusyns entered a society in which there were little or no welfare programs or other forms of public assistance