In the 1940s, Most Weston and Redding Residents Came from Sweden

In the 1940s, most of those who settled in Redding and Weston were of Swedish descent and most of those who settled in Easton were of Czechoslovakian descent, according to this map from the Connecticut Interracial Commission. The map was uploaded to popular social news aggregation site Reddit.com on it's subreddit r/Connecticut on Sunday morning, March 24.

It's certainly shows how diverse Connecticut is and gives a neat overview of the state's dominant "foreign-born" ancestry per town or city.

Later that same day, Reddit user dimensionalvertigo uploaded an updated map using information he said he compiled from "the American Community Survey 5-year estimates, using the Ancestry, Hispanic or Latino Origin by Specific Origin, and Race datasets to provide a full spectrum of information on diversity in Connecticut towns."

That map says that most Redding residents can trace their roots back to Ireland, while most Weston and Easton residents can trace theirs back to Italy.