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The Pennsylvania Germans, aka Pennsylvania Dutch, came to the US for religious freedom reasons, whereas most other German immigrants came to start over for other reasons--second sons, land, adventure, new life, etc... like the German ancestors on my dad's side.
Those of German descent make up the largest ancestry of American immigrants. All of my ancestors came in through the Port of Philadelphia, and they spread out from there. Philadelphia was one of the biggest ports for immigration prior to the Ellis Island years. I remember studying a lot of this in 6th grade, but I don't remember a lot of the particulars.
From there, you would follow the pattern of how the immigrants spread to the first West (now the Midwest), and later to the rest of the US. The first group (1700s) was mostly from the Palantine region (mostly Protestants of different faiths, including the Plain People), but the later and largest groups (1800s) came from different regions and inhabited greater portions of the Midwest and Texas--they were not the Plain People. I think this is where the cuisine differences are most apparent (opinion).
I remember learning the products (food and other things, including autos) in the US brought/invented by German immigrants (whether the immigrant was Protestant,, Catholic, or Jewish).
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