One interesting thing I read about Franzten is that when she first moved back to Iowa after living abroad, she often visited this place in her town called the Sales Barn.
Politicians have for years larded voter lists with the names of foreign musicians, including deceased ones like Marvin Gaye, and have stuffed ballot boxes with abandon.
Waves of drought in Cape Verde prompted massive emigration throughout the 20th century, to the point more CapeVerdeans now live outside the country than in it.