[rwfromkansas]

This is a pretty lame article.

The overwhelming majority of people in my town and the nearby towns are German.

But the idea that we are a "new Germany" is BS. And this article is just being written now, long after the immigration?

Has this journalist heard of timeliness? That is one of the essential elements of news. This is not even remotely timely, not even a tiny bit.

I am German, but I like to play up that itty bit of Irish, Scottish, and English in me more than my German.

[DPB101]

The first Speaker of the House of Representatives, Frederick Muhlenberg, was born in America but received his ministerial education in Germany . It was during his term that a petition from Germans to have Federal laws printed in German as well as English was defeated. When Muhlenberg was Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly, he cast the deciding vote which defeated a proposal to make German the official language of Pennsylvania. Frederick's brother, Peter Muhlenberg--who was also a minister, is best known for a sermon he gave in January of 1776. At the conclusion of the services, Muhlenberg tore off his clerical garb to reveal the uniform of an officer in the Virginia militia.

From the Muhlenbergs to the Germans who came to America in the early 1900s and fought Germany in 1917, Germans have never had a tradition of dual loyality.