Sure, if they wanted to. Thing is that Germans could immigrate in the 1840s and into the 1910s were still teaching in German. Then the hysteria in WWI and the Un-American Activities crowd made a lot of Germans change their name and temporarily ended instruction in German.
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Date: 8/11/10 12:36 (UTC)