German Texan

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German Texans are an ethnic category belonging to residents of the state of Texas who acknowledge German ancestry and self-identify with the term. From their first immigration to Texas in the 1830s, the Germans tended to cluster in ethnic enclaves. A majority settled in a broad, fragmented belt across the south central part of the state [1] becoming increasingly Hispanicized by the Tejanos they shared the land with.

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A large portion of the early settlers were Forty-Eighters who dispersed into areas of Central Texas, where, after a period of activism during the 1850s, Civil War, and Reconstruction, they lived in relative obscurity as teachers, civil servants, merchants, farmers, and ranchers.[2]

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References [edit]

  1. ^ Germans from the Handbook of Texas Online
  2. ^ Forty-Eighters from the Handbook of Texas Online