Reddit reviews Our People: Carpatho-Rusyns and Their Descendants in North America
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Rusyns, who are not Ukrainians or Russians, and not Ukrainophiles or Russophiles, have a long history spanning hundreds of years of historic, cultural, and linguistic development. No one disputes that Rusyn is an older term for Ukrainians, but the mid-19th century is when things especially really started to develop and organize into the nationalism and ethnic identities we see now. Remember there are only about 200 countries in the world, but thousands of languages and cultural groups, so it's far more normal to be a minority, clumsily squeezed into the borders of some other nationality's country, than it is to be an easily defined nationality like English, Italian, Spanish, etc (and in most cases, a regional identity is stronger even than the national one).
If you want a pretty good background of why Rusyns and Ukrainians don't get along, even in North America, 100 years after the major immigrations, here's a book about it. TL;DR: getting told your people and culture don't exist except maybe as a Ukrainian subgroup gets really old really fast.
Here are some resources for further reading that will provide the point of view of those Rusyns who do not consider themselves Ukrainian:
Rusyns are identified in every country where they live as a separate nationality (Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Czech Republic) except Ukraine. That's a fact.