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Just a random musing. We all know about the Irish-Americans (and "Irish"-Americans, if you catch my drift) and their effect on American foreign policy in the 19th and 20th centuries. Less prominent but important in the World Wars were German-Americans, though events have obviously led to that being squashed.

I got thinking about Dutch-Americans. They've been around since New Amsterdam became New York, and they have their own early President - Martin Van Buren, whose first language was Dutch. While I realise that Irish and to a lesser extent German immigrants to the USA had more of a reason to preserve and cling to their culture (or a half-remembered version of it) thanks to the idea of fleeing starvation or oppression, I wonder if the Dutch-Americans could have become a similarly coherent group.

Basically to summarise what I mean, imagine a world where the Roosevelt dynasty acts towards the Netherlands the way the Kennedies acted towards Ireland in OTL, a world where the Nazis hesitate about invading the Netherlands because they know several US Congressmen will start urging the State Department to condemn it lest they lose their seats.
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