On Friday, January 14, 1994 at 11:10:13 AM UTC-5, Dennis Baron wrote:
> Here's a piece I wrote a while ago detailing the "legend': it's 335
> lines long
> The Legendary English-Only Vote of 1795
> by Dennis Baron
> In April, 1987, an election judge from Missouri wrote to Ann
> Landers citing the following excerpt from the local Election
> Manual to support the argument that everyone's vote counts:
> "In 1776, one vote gave America the English language instead
> of German." The statement is not strictly true, as many of
> Landers' more alert readers quickly pointed out. The vote
> in question did not take place. However, language became a
> political and an emotional issue as early as the 1750s, when
> British settlers in Pennsylvania began to fear and resent
> the fact that a third of their fellow Pennsylvanians were
> German speakers.
> Since that time, American nativists have sought to
> eradicate minority languages and discourage bilingualism
> wherever it could be found

Not just that, but minorities anywhere and everywhere. Even outside of the United States. Members of the KKK and other extreme right groups have regularly traveled to central Europe for reasons still unknown. With almost half of his support nationwide, mostly from prisoners as well, Trump calls for public executions on a whim and removing democracy. Why?