Maggie's Farm

I am mostly German by gene count, but I also identify as American when asked officially. I am getting tired of all the "America does not have its own culture" crap from many of the newer immigrants, and progressives attacking America.
I read in Johnson's History of the American People that the English became a minority in what is now the United States around 1734 (don't quote me directly, as this is from memory, but you get the point). In the 1800's my German family would wash your mouth with soap if you did not speak English in the home. Culturally, those days are long gone. But also, as time goes on, the whole concept of being this or that in America gets more ridiculous. My wife is even a descendent of a signer of the Declaration of Independence (who was a Scot with an Italian surname), but now the generation of our children are a mix of English, Irish, Scot, German, Swiss, Norwegian, and Black; but German is by far the biggest part of our gene pool. Its kind of funny that there was not even a Germany when they came to America; just German speaking independent states. I think Ben Franklin even proposed (maybe in jest) that German become the official language of the U.S.