CHAT: was, "What if"

Bryan Maloney wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, abrigon wrote:
>
> > reasons. The US almost did have German as the official lingo by like 1
> > or 2 votes of Congress or percents. I forget the whole story. To keep
>
> Citation?
>
> All that I've investigated say that this is utterly false.
For the entire US.  From what I've heard, it was true
(a) on the committee level for the entire US (and thus
never really came close to being passed as a bill), or
(b) on the state level, in Pennsylvania, where to this
day there are a number (though not a lot) of German
speaking communities.

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