AHC: Make German a primary or more widely spoken language in the United States

Bomster

Banned
With a POD no earlier than 1776, make German either the most widely spoken language in America or at least a strong secondary language (making the US bilingual).
 
Wars rage across all Germany non-stop during the nineteenth century, bumping up emigration to even higher levels than IOTL. Maybe foreign powers occupy regions with significant German populations and oppress them, prompting emigration as well?
 
I could see German becoming the second most spoken language, but German becoming the primary language would be almost impossible with the United States as we know it.

It would probably require the German Empire (or a similar state) conquering most of Europe, and some of Latin America too, to even come close to making German the primary language. Maybe even the secession of parts of the United States and the conquest of this area by the German Empire.
 

Bomster

Banned
I could see German becoming the second most spoken language, but German becoming the primary language would be almost impossible with the United States as we know it.

It would probably require the German Empire (or a similar state) conquering most of Europe, and some of Latin America too, to even come close to making German the primary language. Maybe even the secession of parts of the United States and the conquest of this area by the German Empire.
Could the Midwest become a bastion of German America like how the Southwest is heavily Spanish-speaking?
 
Hitler defeats the US, makes Joseph Goebbels new POTUS and Göring his VP, and they work on "removing" Jews and blacks and strengthen German-Americans until the whole country is German.

(I'm not serious that this would be a tad realistic. But Hitler actually had planned something like this.)
 
Stop the US getting involved in WWI and the anti-German fervor that descended upon the country both during and after the war.

As I noted elsewhere, the assimilation of German-Americans and the decline of the German language in the US started before the world wars, and was merely accelerated, not caused, by them. https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...n-the-us-but-not-german.448759/#post-17382696 The real cause was the decline in German immigration. In general, a non-English language in the US needs new immigrants to avoid decline through assimilation.
 
Could the Midwest become a bastion of German America like how the Southwest is heavily Spanish-speaking?
The South-West is "heavily" Spanish speaking because of recent migration, not because entrenched Spanish presence, Spanish is not projected to increase that much and overall it's becoming a smaller % of mother tounger of Hispanic people in the US, by third generation a majority of Hispanic families speaks English at home and 3/4 speaks mainly English.
 
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