According to that map we should all be speaking german ?
Lots of baby blue from the legend for german ancestry on the map.
I was at a meeting once with a bunch of managers that could not make a decision. Finally I blurted out, “If you all were with the Lewis and Clark expedition we would all be speaking French.”
I have been in my "German" county for almost 60 years but have never once heard anyone talking about their German ancestry. In many of these far western counties I think this attribution of ancestry is not very meaningful. And if you look right now Hispanic would be the single largest group easily.
Lots of baby blue from the legend for german ancestry on the map.
I knew little English when I started grade school, as did most in my class. Lucky for us, our teachers forced us to learn English. I grew up in one of the baby blue counties in central Texas. Lee county was mostly German speaking farmers with some Wendish scattered in amongst the population.