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In reply to the discussion: What is the most common language spoken in each state, apart from English or Spanish? [View all]Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)54. Yeah, those damn German socialists…
One hundred years ago tomorrow, Milwaukee made political history. On April 5, 1910, we became the first (and only) major city in America to elect a Socialist mayor. A former patternmaker named Emil Seidel won a decisive victory in the spring election, beginning a period of Socialist success at the polls that would last until Frank Zeidler stepped down in 1960.
To those outside the city, Seidel's win seemed positively revolutionary, a bold and abrupt departure from the American norm. The truth is that municipal Socialism had been germinating here for generations. It mattered, first of all, that Milwaukee was the most German city in America and that some of its residents were genuine revolutionaries. An 1848 revolt against the German monarchs had ended in victory for the crowned set and exile for thousands of rebels, many of them well-educated idealists who wanted nothing less than to change the world.
A significant number of these "Forty-Eighters" found their way to Milwaukee, where they established music societies, theater groups, schools and other organizations that made their new home the "German Athens" of America. The exiles were as passionate about politics as they were about culture. Their Turner halls and freethinker congregations became forums for ideas that would come to life as Milwaukee Socialism.
To those outside the city, Seidel's win seemed positively revolutionary, a bold and abrupt departure from the American norm. The truth is that municipal Socialism had been germinating here for generations. It mattered, first of all, that Milwaukee was the most German city in America and that some of its residents were genuine revolutionaries. An 1848 revolt against the German monarchs had ended in victory for the crowned set and exile for thousands of rebels, many of them well-educated idealists who wanted nothing less than to change the world.
A significant number of these "Forty-Eighters" found their way to Milwaukee, where they established music societies, theater groups, schools and other organizations that made their new home the "German Athens" of America. The exiles were as passionate about politics as they were about culture. Their Turner halls and freethinker congregations became forums for ideas that would come to life as Milwaukee Socialism.
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What is the most common language spoken in each state, apart from English or Spanish? [View all]
Jesus Malverde
Sep 2014
OP
I didn't realize that the most common language outside of English and Spanish is German
cali
Sep 2014
#1
Isn't the map showing Portuguese for Massachusetts? Or is Massachusetts not considered northern NE?
merrily
Sep 2014
#6
When DH and I were traveling the States, we were amazed at all the little German
Cleita
Sep 2014
#10
They're mostly Scots-Irish and Anglo, and descended from pioneers, from all I've read.....of those..
AverageJoe90
Sep 2014
#30
People of British heritage who consider themselves the only true Americans
NutmegYankee
Sep 2014
#36
Until recently it was common to hear Portuguese in East Cambridge & Somerville e. of Union Square
Gormy Cuss
Sep 2014
#18
There is a large Brazilian population in Framingham and you would hear Portuguese there.
Tanuki
Sep 2014
#24
Well, please understand I'm only going on personal experience, although.........
socialist_n_TN
Sep 2014
#56
Very interesting map. I didn't know Polish was the third most common language in Illinois.
Louisiana1976
Sep 2014
#28
I see my State-Department friend was right about the hidden resettlement programs between 1970-1990.
kelliekat44
Sep 2014
#48