Pennsylvania German Majority

All of that will be undone by the coal mining and steel periods. Both of those caused huge importations of Eastern European immigrants which radically changed the demographics of the Appalachian region.

If so, is there any way to get many German-speaking immigrants to replace them? Somehow get Volga Germans to Pennsylvania? Make Germany poorer or have it suffer a major war defeat in the late 19th century resulting in the Russians or French annexing substantial ethnically German areas resulting in a migration of Germans from Prussia or the Rhineland to the US?
 
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