I read someplace recently that the largest nationality among Americans is decedents of Germans, even outnumbering decedents of the British. I remember reading about all manner of consternation in 19th Century American because those doggone Germans were speaking in German and reading German language newspapers. They just weren’t assimilating.
Definitely. On the 1980 census (I think it was), of residents of MIchigan who actually gave an ethnicity, the largest single group was “German”. One can see it in the surnames, village and town names, and the German-language gravestones.