In real life, most Americans claim German heritage, which is most likely mixed with other ethnicities like Irish and English, but people seem to be reclaiming German heritage at the moment.
Meanwhile, although Italian Americans are a large group at around 17 million, they don't seem to be as spread around as German Americans who live around the Midwest and just all over, while Italians seem mostly restricted to the east coast.
Just check out the map below.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries-by-County.svg
So what I would like to see is a way for Italians and Germans to switch places in that map, and to see how different American culture would be in such a reverse. Like for example, I am pretty sure that hamburgers come from Germans and I know pizza comes from Italians, but everybody just sees hamburgers as just American like appke pie, while pizza is well known to be Italian. There's also the Protestant and Catholic differences between the Germans and Italians.
So overall, how can we get Italians to be such a large group and what would be the repercussions on American culture?
Meanwhile, although Italian Americans are a large group at around 17 million, they don't seem to be as spread around as German Americans who live around the Midwest and just all over, while Italians seem mostly restricted to the east coast.
Just check out the map below.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries-by-County.svg
So what I would like to see is a way for Italians and Germans to switch places in that map, and to see how different American culture would be in such a reverse. Like for example, I am pretty sure that hamburgers come from Germans and I know pizza comes from Italians, but everybody just sees hamburgers as just American like appke pie, while pizza is well known to be Italian. There's also the Protestant and Catholic differences between the Germans and Italians.
So overall, how can we get Italians to be such a large group and what would be the repercussions on American culture?