If US remained apart of Britain would it still have German majority?

If American Revolution never happened or failed, and then remained as a part of the British Empire. Then would it still have a high population of German immigrants like in OTL America? With a German majority in peoples' ancestry?
 
If American Revolution never happened or failed, and then remained as a part of the British Empire. Then would it still have a high population of German immigrants like in OTL America? With a German majority in peoples' ancestry?

I don´t think it ever had either a "German" majority neither a German speaking majority.
 
Well most people in the United States have German ancestry. So what I mean is that would it still be the same for a British America if the Revolutionary War never occurred?
 
The US doesn't have a german majority and it's somewhat of a misnomer that german is arguably the largest plurality ancestry.

If you add up the Americans of English, Scottish and Scotch-Irish (and that's not including Irish itself which was part of the United Kingdom at the time of most immigration), not to mention many Americans who only list "American" as an ancestry they would arguably out-number those who list german as an ancestry.

However "British" is not an ancestry most who would qualify as that background tend to consider themselves.
 
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Well most people in the United States have German ancestry. So what I mean is that would it still be the same for a British America if the Revolutionary War never occurred?

It depends how the political , demographic and economic situation in the German states developes. There are tons of possibilities, so it depends how European history
 
Well most people in the United States have German ancestry.

Where did you get that from? The figure I have seen is 15.68%. http://www.statista.com/chart/2528/ancestry-in-the-united-states/

Also, "In 2000, 42.8 million people (15 percent of the population) considered themselves to be of German (or part-German) ancestry, the most frequent response to the census question (Figure 2)." https://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/c2kbr-35.pdf

No doubt some people have some remote German ancestry of which they are unaware (and therefore do not report to the census) but I still doubt very much that it comes anywhere near a majority.
 
German ancestry is only in sizeable numbers in Eastern cities and certain Midwestern areas like in central Missouri. And don't forget that the Amish are German.
 
I don't see why not, because *America still has a ton of land to be developed and will welcome the immigrants, and they have a history of German settlement since the colonial era.

Will German Catholics migrate is the question. Possibly. They're German, which Americans are used to, but the Know-Nothing Party arose out of all of them and the Irish coming over so you may see the Dominion equivalent arise. Which has happened in the other dominions as well.
 
i think the mixup is the fact that German is the biggest ancestry in most counties
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States

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I think so. German immigration was a thing even before the ARW. Also, a big part of German ancestry was actually the Hessians who stayed behind after the war, and I think more of them would have stayed if the British won.
 
Interesting. The whole British thing is a bit awkward yes, but it'd probably be better to combine them all together into one group. That's how I do it for my ancestry in NZ, but then we focused more on "British" identity than I suspect the US would have.

I guess you could also argue that a lot of the German migration was before or during Germany's unification process, so is Bavarian, Hanoverian etc rather than German.
 

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The US doesn't have a german majority and it's somewhat of a misnomer that german is arguably the largest plurality ancestry.

If you add up the Americans of English, Scottish and Scotch-Irish (and that's not including Irish itself which was part of the United Kingdom at the time of most immigration), not to mention many Americans who only list "American" as an ancestry they would arguably out-number those who list german as an ancestry.

However "British" is not an ancestry most who would qualify as that background tend to consider themselves.

Agree with this. Same as in Australia- "Australian" ancestry is often cited by people with white skin and green eyes. Also, people cite "Irish", by which they mean that they have some Irish ancestry. Not enough novelty value in "English"!:D
 
On "English" vs. "American" ancestry: All states have substantial numbers of people of English ancestry. However, as the map included in a prior post indicates, they are most likely to *classify* themselves as "English" (rather than "American") in Mormon areas (Utah, southeast Idaho, southwest Wyoming, eastern Nevada, etc.) and in northern New England.

In the case of the Mormons, the obvious reason is that the LDS Church puts so much emphasis on genealogy (know your ancestors so they can be posthumously baptized). In the case of northern New England, I suspect it goes back to early opposition of the "Anglo-Saxons" there to the French Canadians (as well as to Irish immigrants, etc.).
 
On "English" vs. "American" ancestry: All states have substantial numbers of people of English ancestry. However, as the map included in a prior post indicates, they are most likely to *classify* themselves as "English" (rather than "American") in Mormon areas (Utah, southeast Idaho, southwest Wyoming, eastern Nevada, etc.) and in northern New England.

In the case of the Mormons, the obvious reason is that the LDS Church puts so much emphasis on genealogy (know your ancestors so they can be posthumously baptized). In the case of northern New England, I suspect it goes back to early opposition of the "Anglo-Saxons" there to the French Canadians (as well as to Irish immigrants, etc.).

Right. We mustn't forget that many white Americans are actually a mix of many different European ethnic groups, and the census only allows people to pick one or two of them. Most of the people claiming "German" as a primary ancestry also probably have English, Scottish, Scotch-Irish, or Welsh ancestry, but don't see it as significantly as they view their other roots. Many others either aren't aware of English heritage or willfully choose not to identify with it because of patriotism (the "American" ancestry group dominant in the South).

There was a similar question about ancestry in the 1980 census where "English" was listed as an example ancestry in the heading. Consequently, the number of respondents who identified English ancestry was much higher than the censuses before and after it - Around 20% of the population, I believe.

There are other explanations for the New England situation, though - Those of English stock in the Northeast are likely more aware and proud of their heritage than people in other areas, claiming continuous affinity with those who arrived on the Mayflower and so on. The Northeast, being less centered around states' rights than the South and also a larger center of immigration, also places more value on exploring ancestry and less stigma on hyphenating.
 
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