Ach! der Lieber. Gott in Himmel! As a fourth generation German-American, I can appreciate your sentiments. The area of Illinois where I grew up is heavily Germen and Swiss-German stock. Ensconced between the Mississippi Bluffs and the Bounty Lands of the old Northwest Ordinance, controlling the prairie-land west of the Kaskaskia and its major contributary Shoal Creek it's a lively place to be during the spring, summer and fall. The county adjacent to my birthplace is of "Anglander" munchen. Wildly pilloried during my youth because of their status as a dry county.
BTW, My father (3rd Gen) was roused from his berth on a troopship loading for North Africa and sent to New Guinea due to his thick German accent, English was always a second language to him. Sadly (he never forgave the army for their treatment of him) we kids were never taught the German language. The old hometown didn't print an English language newspaper until 1935.