Something interesting about 19th century German immigrants to America...
They tended to resist assimilation, and used the German language as a primary means to do so. In 1836 there was an idea floated around by the German Society of Philadelphia to create a new German fatherland comprised of one or more of the states.
Attempts were made on the area around St. Louis in both Missouri and Illinois and Wisconsin state by the German Society of Philadelphia, and the Republic of Texas was targeted by the German society of New York. The first two didn't get far off the ground, but the cause of a German Texas was picked up by some German nobles who pushed the idea in the German states.
Spanning 1842 to 1857, around 35,000 Germans immigrated to Texas - maybe totaling 16% to 17% of the population of Texas.
The good farmland they individually settled was crowded with native born Americans and immigrants of other nationalities. The German immigrants to Texas assimilated.
Some densely packed German majority localities in the mid-west resisted cultural assimilation until the 20th century.
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