Different America?

How can modern day America be linguistically and culturally different? I mean so there is different countries, such as German speaking America, Russian speaking, French speaking, Polish Speaking etc?
 
Well along the northern border of New England many people speak French, Or at least understand it. The kids so that they can understand Memi and pepi.
At the end of the ARW there was a movement to make german the official language. So the answer is yes. the most likely language would be German and maybe Dutch. Keep the Hudson River valley dutch speaking and have it spread out some.
Many of the early settlers were German speaking and they tended to settle in the same areas. If you want gaelic there are two workable ways. At the time of the highland clearances, has the British settle the Scotch in one or two areas. Later have the Irish have compact settlement area,maybe have the US settle then enmass along the edge of indian territory.
The biggest problem would be finding a way for them to be percieved as Americans without loosing there languages.
 
At the end of the ARW there was a movement to make german the official language.
Gaaaahh! Not this again!

No, that is an urban legend, with some very, very little basis in fact. There were a couple of moves to allow German to have some official status (not THE official status) in Pennsylvania (not anywhere else).

Still. German as an active language in Pennsylvania, Dutch in upstate New York, French in Louisiana and *Acadia (if the US took New Brunswick, somehow), are all theoretical possibilities.

You'd probably have to cut off Anglo immigration before the mad rush in the 1800s, and I'm not sure how you'd do that. Either that or have even MORE immigration, and I don't know how to do that, either.
 
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