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The total number of Slovene immigrants who left for America is estimated somewhere between 250,000 and 350,000. The 1990 Census counted 124,437 people of Slovene ancestry, 738 of them holding doctoral degree.

IMMIGRANTS - The first Slovene immigrants began to arrive to the United States in the late 1700s; their heaviest influx is from the period 1880-1914, and 1949-1956. Unfortunately, there is no reliable data on the total number who came to stay. In the early period of emigration to America, up to the American Civil War (1861-65) or so, only a few Slovenes left for America. Existing evidence indicates that in the century prior to 1945 approximately 550,000 Slovenes emigrated, and that 314,000 of these left in the period 1850-1914. Because most of them came to the United States, a reasonable estimate puts the total number of Slovene immigrants somewhere between 250,000 and 350,000. After WW II, as it is well known, political refugees also moved to the USA. The number was relatively modest, some three thousand. After 1960, emigration to the USA was insignificant, the reasons being mostly economic. The 1990 Census counted 124,437 people of Slovene ancestry, 738 of them holding doctoral degree.

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