Germans Cheated by Texans...

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Thanks for that extra information, 5fish. The Indians had a lot in common with those Germans - no wonder they got along!

Germans in Texas had a tough time during the CW because of a statement by the Freier Mann Verein saying slavery was an evil and the states should have federal help in abolishing it. That upset the Democrats and other pro-slavery parties so...they got picked on!
 

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You know your fellow Texas Germans mixed their music with the local Mexicans and created different styles of music... The accordion the key instrument... @rittmeister and @Wehrkraftzersetzer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tejano_music

Tejano music (or Tex-Mex music) also musica tejana is a popular music style fusing Mexican, European, and U.S. influences.[1] With elements from Mexican-Spanish vocal traditions and Czech and German dance tunes and rhythms, particularly polka or waltz,[2][3] traditionally played by small groups featuring accordion and guitar. Its evolution began in northern Mexico (a variation known as norteño)[4] and Texas in the mid-19th century with the introduction of the accordion by German, Polish, and Czech immigrants.

It reached a much larger audience in the late 20th-century thanks to the explosive popularity of the artist Selena ("The Queen of Tejano"), Mazz, La Mafia, Ram Herrera, La Sombra, Elida Reyna, Elsa García, Laura Canales, Oscar Estrada, Jay Perez, Emilio Navaira, Esteban "Steve" Jordan, Shelly Lares, David Lee Garza, Jennifer Peña, La Fiebre, and others
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Norteño or Norteña (Spanish pronunciation: [noɾˈteɲo], northern), also música norteña, is a genre of Regional Mexican music from Northern Mexico, hence the name. The music is most often based on a polka or waltz tempo and its lyrics often deal with socially relevant topics, although there's also a large amount of norteño love songs. The accordion and the bajo sexto are traditional norteño's most characteristic instruments. Norteña music developed in the late 19th century, as a mixture between German folk music (which was introduced to Mexico with the arrival of German migrant workers in those years), and local Northern Mexican music.

The genre is popular in both Mexico and the United States, especially among the Mexican and Mexican-American community, and it has become popular in many Latin American countries as far as Colombia, Chile, and Spain. Though originating from rural areas, norteño is popular in both rural and urban areas.

A conjunto norteño is a type of Mexican folk ensemble. It mostly includes diatonic accordion, bajo sexto, electric bass or double bass, and drums, and sometimes saxophone.


Here Mexican Beer is German beer...

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Grain beer and traditional brewing began to take shape in the mid-19th century with a wave of Germanic immigration. Mexico spent four years under the domain of Austro-German Emperor Maximilian, and he loved his beer enough to open his own brewery. The influence stuck, and you can see Viennese style beer being reflected in two of Mexico’s most popular brands, Negra Modelo and Dos Equis Amber.

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From Maximilian’s rule to well into the early 20th century, breweries began popping up left and right. La Pila Seca, the first lager beer brewery in Mexico, was founded by Bernhard Bolgard, a Swiss immigrant, and similarly styled breweries followed. By 1918, 36 beer producers had taken shape in Mexico, producing beer for the european immigrants as well as the indigenous population – though the indigenous people weren’t as found of the beverage as their colonizers were. When American Prohibition was passed, Americans also began to flock to Mexico to drink a cold one, further increasing demand. To these new American drinkers the beer was Mexican.

 

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In the state Chihuahua cheese German influence...

Chihuahua
Chihuaha, which you may also find as queso menonita, is another excellent melting cheese. When the Dutch and German Mennonites settled in Chihuahua in the early 1920s, they introduced this cheese to the area, hence the name “menonita.” Younger versions are buttery and springy, and aged versions become brittle and tangy. Chihuahua is known for its use in queso fundido. You can use it the same way you’d use cheddar or Monterey jack – melt it, put it on a sandwich, or snack on it with your favorite cracker. Enjoy it on the Quesadilla Roja con Chicharron at Presidio Cocina Mexicana.
 

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Here is some more about Germans in Texas...


By 1930, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, persons born in Germany or whose parents where born there made up a full 36 percent of "foreign white stock" in Texas. The next largest group was from Czechoslovakia at 11.5 percent.

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Early German festivals in Texas included one grand gathering of singing societies for a "Saengerfest" and "Volkfest" in October 1853. The celebration drew settlers from throughout the state to New Braunfels, the new German center for Texas.

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As early as 1850, they constituted more than 5 percent of the total Texas population, a proportion that remained constant through the remainder of the nineteenth century. Intermarriage has blurred ethnic lines, but the 1990 United States census revealed that 1,175,888 Texans claimed pure and 1,775,838 partial German ancestry, for a total of 2,951,726, or 17½ percent of the total population.
 

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Here is some more about Germans in Texas...


By 1930, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, persons born in Germany or whose parents where born there made up a full 36 percent of "foreign white stock" in Texas. The next largest group was from Czechoslovakia at 11.5 percent.

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Early German festivals in Texas included one grand gathering of singing societies for a "Saengerfest" and "Volkfest" in October 1853. The celebration drew settlers from throughout the state to New Braunfels, the new German center for Texas.

This link is better one...


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As early as 1850, they constituted more than 5 percent of the total Texas population, a proportion that remained constant through the remainder of the nineteenth century. Intermarriage has blurred ethnic lines, but the 1990 United States census revealed that 1,175,888 Texans claimed pure and 1,775,838 partial German ancestry, for a total of 2,951,726, or 17½ percent of the total population.

Are you going to get to when the Rebs hunted them down and massacred them for being anti-slavery?
 

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Here is some more about Germans in Texas...


By 1930, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, persons born in Germany or whose parents where born there made up a full 36 percent of "foreign white stock" in Texas. The next largest group was from Czechoslovakia at 11.5 percent.

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Early German festivals in Texas included one grand gathering of singing societies for a "Saengerfest" and "Volkfest" in October 1853. The celebration drew settlers from throughout the state to New Braunfels, the new German center for Texas.

This link is better one...


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As early as 1850, they constituted more than 5 percent of the total Texas population, a proportion that remained constant through the remainder of the nineteenth century. Intermarriage has blurred ethnic lines, but the 1990 United States census revealed that 1,175,888 Texans claimed pure and 1,775,838 partial German ancestry, for a total of 2,951,726, or 17½ percent of the total population.
while saengerfest (sängerfest) is a correct word volkfest should be volksfest
 
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