In Rural Wisconsin, German Reigned For Decades

[spanishspy]

Interesting little bit about how German survived in Hustisford, Wisconsin, into the 1930s. World War II seemed to be the end of it.

[lordroel]

Feb 6, 2020 16:17:05 GMT spanishspy said:

Interesting little bit about how German survived in Hustisford, Wisconsin, into the 1930s. World War II seemed to be the end of it.

interesting read,

[kyng]

Not too surprising that it lasted for decades in some places, when you consider the number of Hispanic immigrants (and their descendants) who still use Spanish as their main language.

Does make me wonder, though: how long would it have lasted were it not for World War II?

[stevep]

Jul 23, 2020 22:52:05 GMT kyng said:

Not too surprising that it lasted for decades in some places, when you consider the number of Hispanic immigrants (and their descendants) who still use Spanish as their main language.

Does make me wonder, though: how long would it have lasted were it not for World War II?

  I think the big issue was possibly more WWI than WWII as it and some German led sabotage attacks, as well as plans for moblising German migrants in the US as some sort of secret underground army cause a fair amount of tension and more pressure to integrate.  Of which an obvious step would be switching to English as their primary tongue.