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tehstone  ·  3632 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The most commonly spoken language that isn't English or Spanish in each state

You can thank back to back world wars against Germany for the decline of the German language in the US. At the turn of the 20th century the language was used all across the country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language_in_the_United_States#German-language_press

Additionally, there are multiple religious groups that left Europe throughout the 19th century who speak German to this day.





Cumol  ·  3632 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I did not realize that there were so many german newspapers in the U.S., wow!

I found it funny to see the the WWII propaganda poster stating to "speak american"... Was this not a discussion after the Coca Cola ad during the superbowl not too long ago?