🌲 Mac Finn 🌲

The Dutch ceased being the largest minority circa 1730, and America at founding was 40% non-English. That isn’t what Ellis Islander means either. On the contrary, I think the antebellum and Castle Garden waves of German, Irish, and Scandi immigrants were good; for had events proceeded differently, which was very plausible, America could have served as the basis of an Aryan pan-Europeanism. What, moreover, was the tangible political consequence of Midwest Germans “not assimilating”? Opposition to interventional foreign intra-European wars upon which the government embarked against the predominant isolationist sentiment? National German and Irish political figures of the 30s/40s/50s were disproportionately nationalist—Lindbergh, Coughlin, the elder Kennedys, McCarran, McCarthy, Buckley. Whatever happened afterwards evidently had little to do with any intrinsic subversiveness of White Western immigrants.