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?
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?
Well most people in the United States have German ancestry.
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.
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.).