Anonymous #1 13h

Bc the confederates were unhinged people-owning psychopaths

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Anonymous #2 13h

I assume the German communities were against them? Or maybe they didn’t like their foreignness?

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Anonymous #1 12h

Many were against slavery as they had lived through forms of serfdom themselves. Others were highly educated. Surprisingly high number of socialists/communists. And it was the fact that many Germans held those beliefs that led to them being massacred by the confederates because they were seen as a threat to slaveholders and confederate power.

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Anonymous #3 12h

Most of the decline in Texas German though is mostly due to the legacy of WWI and II, as most people didn’t want to be persecuted for association with imperial Germany, or later be associated whatsoever with the Nazis, so an entire generation of children was raised without the language being passed down. In the Fredericksburg area there’s still several hundred native speakers, though most are in their 70‘s/80‘s. The youngest is in his 50s iirc.

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Anonymous #2 8h

Wrong…it was cause they were unionists and supported the union

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