Colin Ross, "Unser Amerika" Chapter 3
The "German Belt." Over 25 million Americans are of German descent (about one in four white Americans). About 7 million Americans were born in Germany or of German parents. Over 6 of these 7 million live in the "German Belt," the northern states from the Atlantic to the Rockies. In these, they make up the following percentage of the population: 3. The German History of America "Our America" - that sounds strange in the mouth of a German. We have become accustomed to seeing in America a daughter state of Great Britain. Even today I read the treatise of a well-known German politician and geographer who wrote of England and the United States of America as the two Anglo-Saxon states. At the same time, I heard a German who is about to become an American citizen passionately defend the character of America as an Anglo-Saxon country. The Anglo-Saxon character of the United States is the most compelling example of the shaping power of a consistently championed id...