[78-L] O Maryland, My Christmas Tree

[Steven C. Barr]

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From: "David Breneman" <david_breneman at yahoo.com>
> --- On Wed, 6/23/10, Jeff Lichtman <jeff at swazoo.com> wrote:
>> [Unattributed]
>> >Wasn't it a close vote between English and German to be
>> >the official language of the US at one point?
>> 
>> No - according to Snopes...
> But, if there is one society (I hesitate to say nation,
> because Germany didn't become one until the era of
> Wilhelm I in the mid/late 1800s) other that Britain
> which has influenced American culture, it is, by far,
> Germany.
> 
In fact, it was the events involved in the unification of
Germany as a single nation that caused the mass migration
just as the US midwest was being settled; German farmers
happily acquired large tracts of land!

Steven C. Barr